I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn’t standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spelled things however they heard...

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before...

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past … entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the “problem” of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both...

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.