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Every year, the District hosts a variety of events, bringing the community and members together, to celebrate the arts and culture while building a deeper connection within the community.
Every year, the District hosts a variety of events, bringing the community and members together, to celebrate the arts and culture while building a deeper connection within the community.
Who Really penned all the works attributed to Shakespeare? The doubts have been around for over 300 years. How could William Shakespeare — a man who never sailed — have written with such accuracy about sailing in The Tempest? Or how — without studying law — could he have written with such insight about lawyers, courts, and legal issues, in plays such as Henry IV? Or — without ever serving in the military — written so splendidly of the rigors and technical aspects of war as he did in Hamlet? That he couldn’t and didn’t is a fascinating concept that has amused many, tantalized others, and consumed the lives of a few, including a Boston man who, in 1916, went to court to prove that someone other than Shakespeare wrote all those great works. Before you laugh… he won the case.
Hear the story of one man’s search for the “real” author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare and how — in a stunning piece of historical irony — that search played a role in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
This program is offered by the Bacon Free Library in collaboration with a multitude of MA Libraries; it is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library.
Please register here for the Zoom link.
David Kruh is a former New Yorker and a 1978 graduate of the University of Maryland. While earning his Masters in Computer Engineering at Boston University, David worked as an engineer at WRKO Radio. He has also worked full time as a copywriter, computer programmer, radio producer, radio engineer, and, for a few years in the mid-1990s, as a spokesman and web master for the Big Dig. He retired a few years ago from a semiconductor manufacturer, where he was the direct marketing manager. He is also the author of several other books, notably two on Boston’s Scollay Square and Building Route 128. David’s most recent book is Inseparable, based on the audacious 1962 escape by three inmates from Alcatraz.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
