Thomas North: Playwright

My letter-to-the-editor response on North's payment for a play in the "Times Literary Supplement"

On December 13, The Times Literary Supplement published an article by June Schlueter and myself—Murder Will Speak: The author of the first Hamlet and the real-life assassination of the Duke of Urbino—which credits Thomas North with authorship for the “Ur-Hamlet,” the original 1588 source-play for Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy. Also, see my Substack …