SAT Conference 2020 - 4 - Julia Cleave - Insider Gossip in Three Shakespeare Plays

Julia Cleave: Independent scholar and SAT Trustee, a presentation titled, “Excellent! I smell a device: Insider Gossip in Three Shakespeare Plays.”, with performances from Annabel Leventon and Sir Mark Rylance at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust conference 2020, "I all alone beweep my outcast state" - Insiders, Outsiders: Shakespeare and the Court.

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[duncanmckeown]

Fascinating insight. After listening to this it is pretty hard....unless you are wilfully blind...to deny "Shake-speare's" knowledge of the inner court life and gossip.

[adamguerrero]

I'm curious about the parallels on other court intrigue as well, like the life of Amelia Bassano Lanier Johnson & oh say the Taming of the Shrew & Othello & possibly others

[alainaaugust]

Has any Shakespeare Twelfth Night scholar ever noticed that Malvolio is Latin for I want evil? Mal = evil (English derivative example, malific) plus volio = I want (English derivative example, volition). The Earl of Oxford would certainly have known this, probably from the time he was 10.