WHY JOHN FLORIO ALIAS SHAKESPEARE?
“There are two essential influences in Shakespeare’s works: they are the Neapolitan philosopher Giordano Bruno and the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne.” Why John Florio & Shakespeare? Article by Michel Vaïs […]
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: THE DANVERS CASE
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: THE DANVERS CASE It has been suggested by many Shakespeare’s scholars that the famous Danvers-Long feud inspired Shakespeare for the plot of Romeo and Juliet. But what’s […]
JOHN FLORIO & SHAKESPEARE: FIRST FOLIO
It has been suggested by some Shakespeare’s scholars that The First Folio was a project organised by Ben Jonson and John Florio, alias Shakespeare. In an article published in The Guardian, Saul Frampton […]
SHAKESPEARE & COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE
SHAKESPEARE & COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE: GL’INGANNATI Mary scholars agree that Shakespeare incorporated Commedia dell’Arte in his plays, an Italian form of comedy that was often improvised, into many of his plays, using […]
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: DIALOGUES
JOHN FLORIO’S DRAMATIC DIALOGUES John Florio, like Shakespeare, in First Fruits and Second Fruits wrote dramatic dialogues about love, women, theatre and philosophy; arguments that cannot be found in another […]
LEICESTER’S MEN
JOHN FLORIO, SHAKESPEARE & LEICESTER’S MEN In 1578 John Florio published his first work, First Fruits, which contains four dedicatory poems written by the whole company of the Leicester’s Men. They are Richard […]