1/ The 400-year-old mystery behind the true origins of the #Shakespeare canon has been solved with a thorough scientific investigation involving the latest digital technologies and forensic linguistics. Shakespeare was adapting Thomas North's old plays. amazon.com/dp/B0BKC66VFP/
2/ The results have led to discoveries of manuscripts that have connected Thomas North to #Shakespeare’s plays--e.g., the discovery of a North-family-manuscript used for 11 Shakespeare plays. This made the front page of NYT & new reports around the world nytimes.com/2018/02/07/boo…
3/ 11 years ago I brought my findings to scholar June Schlueter, professor emerita of Lafayette College and #Shakespeare Bulletin, and she has helped with all these Thomas North discoveries and become my co-author: folger.edu/shakespeare-un…
4/ It was through June Schlueter (and her husband Paul) that we were able to find "Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal" --which was used for #Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" and "The Winter's Tale." We published this book with @fdupress. Here's a video intro:
5/ Renowned investigative journalist @michaelblanding spent years examining our findings and wrote: "In #Shakespeare's Shadow" smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/d…
6/ Blanding has now joined with Schlueter and myself and discovered an old-North family history book in which Thomas North wrote out the outline of #Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" in the margins. This also made news reports around the world: theguardian.com/culture/2022/a…
7/ We aren't just getting fabulously lucky, again and again. No one denies #Shakespeare frequently adapted old plays, and "Thomas North" explains when, how, and why North wrote these old plays, and why Shakespeare then adapted them for the public stage: amazon.com/dp/B0BM3KV3M4/
8/ Finally and astonishingly, Thomas North not only wrote #Shakespeare's source-plays, he actually LIVED them too, literally experiencing many of the most stunning and famous scenes of the canon. How can this possibly be? Chapter 20 explains, and here are the 1st 3 pages: 
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