{"id":1811,"date":"2009-03-18T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2009-03-18T17:49:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T01:49:45","slug":"shakespeare-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/reading\/authors\/shakespeare-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week ago <a title=\"shakespeare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/shakespeares-likeness\/\">a portrait of Shakespeare<\/a> emerged that was supposedly painted by a contemporary. Now a fellow named John Casson (&#8220;an independent researcher and psychotherapist&#8221;) who &#8220;spent three years studying writings thought to be connected to Shakespeare&#8221; (<em>wow! three years!<\/em>), <a title=\"new shakespeare works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/5005557\/Academic-discovers-six-works-by-William-Shakespeare.html\">claims to have discovered six &#8220;new&#8221; works by Shakespeare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that there has been a sizeable full-time Shakespeare industry churning away in academia for at least a hundred years, I think this claim must be taken with many grains of salt until verified. It would be interesting to see the works though. English writing has been all downhill since Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week ago a portrait of Shakespeare emerged that was supposedly painted by a contemporary. Now a fellow named John Casson (&#8220;an independent researcher and psychotherapist&#8221;) who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}