Listen to Dennis McCarthy on BYU radio!!

Woohoo! Go Dennis McCarthy!!!

So proud!

7/84 In 1928, #Shakespeare-scholar H.H. Furness noted that while the playwright was copying #ThomasNorth’s belly-fable from Plutarch, he also borrowed from North’s belly fable in Doni. Actually, he conflated THREE of North’s fables. sirthomasnorth.wpcomstaging.com/2021/01/13/7-c… #NorthbyShakespeare

14/84: Video: How we know North wrote "Henry VIII." FDU Press, #northbyshakespeare, #Shakespeare, #ThomasNorth, #wecandothisforeveryplay videopress.com/v/dQunh3cp

On 3/15, many of my #Shakespeare friends post "Remember the ides of March," but let's also remember Thomas North first wrote that line as well as many of the passages in the tragedy, wp.me/pck4h5-uq, Thomas North, #northbyshakespeare

Breaking news: In 1591-2, Thomas North wrote notes and underscored passages in his personal copy of his own “Dial of Princes.” He was using it as a workbook for “Taming of the Shrew,” “Macbeth,” and “Arden of Faversham” wp.me/pck4h5-j1, #northbyshakespeare

AHHHHH!!! Trending now on the Boston Globe and will be the cover of the Boston Globe Magazine on Sunday!!! So excited and proud of Dennis McCarthy, and of course, the talents of @michaelblanding are on full display here. It is truly incredible how he captured this story.

How it started (2005): How it's going:

1/10 Shakespeare’s debt to Thomas North involves not just "phrases” but 100s of passages, images, stories, & characters (beside 3 full plays). eg, Belarius hides Cymb's sons in a mount. cave to reproduce North’s fable of eagle & beetle (cited explicitly): wp.me/pck4h5-vS

CSMonitor on "North by Shakespeare:" "the most elegant solution to the authorship question to appear in many decades.... Orthodox scholars who simply ignore it do so at the peril of their reputations." csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Rev…

That's a lot of red.

Hundreds of Shakespeare's passages found in ALL of Thomas North's earlier writings (not just Plutarch & including his Journal!) Did Shakespeare have access to North's unpublished texts or have we finally identified the author of Shakespeare's source-plays?wp.me/Pck4h5-M9

Shakespeare Academics that ignore the Thomas North thing are weird. Just acknowledge it. It’s weirder to not do it. @michaelblanding Dennis McCarthy

MT TEDxPortsmouth: This week we highlighted 2015 #TEDx03801 speaker Sara Curry. Who’s next? Stay tuned! tedxpiscataquariver.com/speakers

#TBT to this guide to attending a #filmfestival from #NHFF 2012 youtube.com/watch?v=xQCY95…

Speaking of #NHFF videos, I still can’t over the 2014 #NHFF Wrap video by Anchor Line! youtube.com/watch?v=cfFoqj… #TBT

Hard to believe! MT TEDxPortsmouth: The countdown continues…60 days! #TEDx03801 ow.ly/i/8Q6Bx

Wrapped on Season 1 of DIRECTV original series #AlmostThere! Can you find me among our talented cast and crew!?

Check out the Insta cut of a film I produced -- thanks for sharing VANITY FAIR instagram.com/p/BAfOibpkD-J/