Shakespeare and the Catholic network.

Contemporary Review | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

IF anything can change our understanding of Shakespeare's life, it is likely to be a massive research project that has gained momentum of recent years. The usual shorthand for this project is 'Shakespeare's Lancashire Connection', stemming from E.A.J. Honigmann's brilliant Shakespeare: The 'Lost Years' (Manchester University Press, 1985). I prefer to think of it as 'the Catholic network'. It all centres on one big fact (which is itself ambivalent) and a myriad smaller facts which, like tiny fish, seem to point the same way as the large pilot fish.

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