Birkhall's Miscellany

As I've now read all the Shakespeare Apocrypha plays (I hope) it seems like a good idea to draw a little line under things by creating a...

I've just finished reading  Double Falsehood . This is a play from 1727 by the writer Lewis Theobald. However, he claimed it was based u...

This was the final play on my list, so I feel a sense of completion. (Though there is one more that I didn't have on there; a play title...

Another apocrypha play. Though this one is almost certainly the work of the playwright Thomas Kyd according to experts. The apocrypha claims...

I've chalked off another apocrypha play. This time Thomas of Woodstock , sometimes referred to as Richard II, Part One . I'll try to...

Firstly, let's quickly get the backstory of this play out the way. It's said to date from the Elizabethan era and only survives in m...

Today I've read Edmund Ironside , subtitled War Hath Made All Friends . Some critics have suggested that this play is an early Shakespea...