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Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 8d

An homage to a revolutionary outsider

Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · 8d

The Singular Daring, Genius, and Compassion of Jane Goodall: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-singul...

The Singular Daring, Genius, and Compassion of Jane Goodall

Sometimes, seemingly small and insignificant events in the life of a talented individual can set into motion a chain of choices that eventually transforms the world.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · 8d

The Singular Daring, Genius, and Compassion of Jane Goodall: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-singul...

The Singular Daring, Genius, and Compassion of Jane Goodall

Sometimes, seemingly small and insignificant events in the life of a talented individual can set into motion a chain of choices that eventually transforms the world.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · 27d

I do hope you join me and watch live as the 400-year-old mystery of the identity of the Dark Lady is finally solved. Next Sunday (9/21/2025) 5 PM EST: payhip.com/b/1uTnL

Shakespeare's Dark Lady Revealed Live (Zoom Presentation)

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Sep 2

The most common question I am asked is: What about the sonnets? Well, here it is: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-origin...

The Origin of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Here it comes ...

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yes. Kind of. There is an original poem by North--and a pre-adapted version of a Shakespeare play by North, which I will soon discuss at dennismccarthy.substack.com (IN fact, I will be writing my first post on the sonnets soon.)

All The Mysteries That Remain | Dennis McCarthy | Substack

Using rational analyses and the latest, earth-shaking discoveries to explore the still unresolved questions in science, history, and Shakespeare. Click to read All The Mysteries That Remain, by Dennis...

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Jun 7

Latest post is a big one and comments by subscribers have been generous. We're now #32 Rising in Literature on Substack: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/explaining...

Explaining the First Folio (and the Final Shakespeare Mystery)

This is the post for which all authorship scholars have been waiting

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · May 15

The Petrova case is a perfect microcosm of the Trump administration. It’s stupid, primitive, Draconian, anti-intellectual, anti-foreigner, anti-Harvard, anti-science, anti-J-1-Visa, & anti-Ukraine. It’s ignorant and despicable in every direction. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/these-stup...

These Stupid, Vicious Cocksuckers

Harvard anti-aging scientist fighting deportation and imprisonment in Russia is now charged with smuggling

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 17

Breaking News on what seems to be the most significant discovery in the history of the world: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/were-not-s...

We're Not Saying It's Aliens, But ... It's Aliens

The New York Times reports what appears to be the most significant signal for extraterrestrial life ever recorded

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

8/ Why, in the 1st Folio, didn't Jonson just write plainly that Shakespeare shouldn't be praised & North should get the credit? Because this was a collection being sold to Shakespeare fans--& the publishers would have nixed it. Why don't we see the truth about Walt Disney in Disney collections?

Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

7/ And as I have just shown, Jonson's ode at the front of the First Folio, actually outs North as original author--and mocks Shakespeare as just the reviser (which is why Digges and Dryden described the ode as an attack against Shakespeare) dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-stunni...

The Stunning 400-Year-Old Secret at the Front of Shakespeare's First Folio that Explains Everything [Unpaywalled]

How did everyone miss this?!

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

6/ Finally, Ben Jonson didn't perpetuate any fraud. He repeatedly stressed that Shakespeare "would buy the reversion of old plays" and then "marks not whose twas first." dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/ben-jonson...

Ben Jonson Knew Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays

As a welcome gift to all the new subscribers, my very next Substack article will expose the 400-year-old secret behind Ben Jonson’s To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

5/ They also probably preferred longer, unpublished versions. So no conspiracies. Publishers couldn't get rights to Shakespeare's own adaptations (bad quartos & apocryphal plays)--so they published the plays as the Folio advertised on the title page: "According to the True Original Copies."

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

4/ Y didn't they include Shakespeare's apocryphal plays or bad quartos in the First Folio? Well, they did include the apocrypha in the 3rd & 4th Folios. But the reason they were left out of the 1st is, as I will show, they actually tried but couldn't get the rights. It's mostly that simple.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

3/ So why did Jaggard, Blount, et al. publish Shakespeare's First Folio?
A. For the exact same reason publishers produced collections of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, etc., they wanted to make money.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

2/ It is the First Folio that became popular and enduring and the text that scholars studied--so that then became the official record of Shakespeare's "real" plays. But as shown in the pic above, the plays produced while Shakespeare was alive provide a more accurate record of what Stratford wrote.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

1/ Thread: I'll address Ben Jonson at end of thread but first: Great question, but as I show with the list of ALL pre-1621 title pages below, no one was trying to fool anyone. The title-pages confirm Shakespeare wrote/adapted the bad quartos and apocryphal plays. There is no mystery.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

This is the most stunning fact about the Shakespeare authorship question, and almost no one knows about it: Most of the plays that were attributed to Shakespeare while he was alive (and up till 1620) are NOT the same plays that we think he wrote today! dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/travelling...

Travelling Back in Time To Determine Exactly What Shakespeare Really Wrote

A review of all title pages and documents of the era is actually quite shocking:

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 9

Huge article today that explains the other half of the Shakespeare mystery. Yes, we know Shakespeare adapted old plays--but what exactly was his contribution? dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/what-shake...

What Shakespeare Really Wrote

According to straightforward readings of all title pages and documents of the era, the answer is obvious.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 4

It's just so, so stupid: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/will-the-d...

Will the Dumbest Fucking Formula in History Cause a Global Meltdown?

Yes, unless Trump gives most nations a pass or reverses course

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 4

I use this pic in my latest Substack post (and cite you, of course.)

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Mar 22

New post: Ben Jonson Knew Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays open.substack.com/pub/dennismc...

Ben Jonson Knew Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays

As a welcome gift to all the new subscribers, my very next Substack article will expose the 400-year-old secret behind Ben Jonson’s To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr.

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Mar 21

This provides a summary of the proofs and evidence that North wrote the plays that Shakespeare later adapted: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/how-we-kno...

How We Know Thomas North Wrote the Plays that Shakespeare Later Adapted

Free, sharable post that summarizes the proofs of North's original authorship

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Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Feb 28

One of my popular posts--now free: "The Meaning of Life and the Greatest Sentence Ever Written [Unpaywalled]" open.substack.com/pub/dennismc...

The Meaning of Life and the Greatest Sentence Ever Written [Unpaywalled]

“All The Mysteries That Remain” is a reader-supported publication and the result of decades of research.

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Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · Feb 28

Don't read this unless you're curious who wrote the original version of this play

Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social · Feb 28

[Free post:] Everyone believed "The Winter's Tale" was just a dazzling and gaudy fairy-tale filled with eye-popping impossibilities. In fact, it is, like "Animal Farm," an important, clear-eyed, politically oriented, symbolically precise fairytale-à-clef. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-450-ye...

The 450-Year-Old Secret Behind Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" [Unpaywalled]

As discovered in Thomas North's travel diary, the play is not just a magical fairytale but based on real events

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