Dennis McCarthy on All The Mysteries That Remain

Your knowledge on the issue is formidable -- and your argument reasonable and well-researched. But we do disagree on this issue. I do have a paper coming out in a peer reviewed journal that does confirm that not just Nashe--but Jonson and Lodge were clearly referencing North as the original author of Hamlet (and RJ, Timon of Athens, Much Ado, and JC). I believe this will likely get a some press (as we use AI for one of the analyses.) I also believe I have confirmed that North and Shakespeare are clearly the gentleman-writer and player-patron in Groatsworth -- and North is one of the three gentleman scholars warned about Shakespeare in the letter. In fact, this is why I even started studying North in the first place -- and why I have since found so many manuscripts of North that were used for Shakespeare's plays (as well as the thousands of unique parallel lines and passages.) In other words, the identity of the Ur-Hamlet came first -- and all the related discoveries afterward.