The Analog Antiquarian

The young King Edward VI resembled the late Prince Arthur, the uncle he had never known, more than he did his own father.

The death of King Richard III was as close as William Shakespeare’s plays about English history came to his own present day for the vast majority of his career.

We’ve gotten to know William Shakespeare’s Richard III pretty well by now.

Some of Shakespeare’s plays were extremely popular during their author’s lifetime, only to fall into relative obscurity in the centuries that followed his death.

After the events of 1471, King Edward IV seemed more secure on his throne than any English monarch in several decades.

King Henry I know not what to say; my title’s weak.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, had been slowly turning from friend to foe of Henry VI ever since Henry allowed Gloucester’s wife Eleanor to be arrested and imprisoned for witchcraft and treason.

Although there is much that we don’t know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast.

We know more about the life of William Shakespeare than a lot of people think, but less than we would like.

Dromio S.

A couple of anecdotes to start us off: Twenty years ago, I and the woman who is now my wife were in that early-to-middle, feeling-out phase of courtship, when the talk turns to existential matters of life and death, art and religion.

Baer, Elizabeth.