Michael blanding biography
Michael Blanding is an....
Blanding in the News
“New evidence suggests Shakespeare may have stolen the plot of Cymbeline: Notes from a 1533 book put Sir Thomas North in the frame for one of the bard’s later plays,” Dalya Alberge, The Observer (UK), April 24, 2022.
“Outline of Cymbeline in Thomas North’s Marginalia,” Dennis McCarthy, Academia.edu, April 23, 2022.
Reviews for In Shakespeare’s Shadow
“Entertaining… energetic… highly enjoyable… It’s almost as much fun as sitting in a theater.” — Bookpage
“Virtuoso job...
Michael Blanding is a Boston-based investigative journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Smithsonian, Slate, The Nation, The Boston.
the most elegant proposed solution to the authorship question to appear in many decades... scholars who simply ignore it do so at the peril of their reputations.” — Christian Science Monitor
“Lively….Blanding does a good job of capturing the eccentric [Dennis] McCarthy and his passion to get to the bottom of this particular rabbit hole.
Shakespeare fans and readers who enjoy the thrill of a good bibliographic treasure hunt will want to check this out.”―Publi