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The well-known social network Facebook meets Shakespeare. Let's have another opportuniy to learn more about the Bard from Stradford-upon-Avon. Here's the link to Shakespeare Facebook page.

Some researchers think that Edward De Vere really wrote what we all know as Shakespeare's plays. But some of them think also that "Shakespeare" was only a pseudonym De Vere chose to remain anonymous for many reasons.

See what Matthew Cossolotto, Shakespeare Oxford Society President (2005-2009), says on About.com: Shakespeare

Do teachers correct spelling? Do they think it is important to write correctly according to correct standard spelling? A debate is in progress in the UK. I personally think that teachers should mark their students'  spelling.

See what is happening in the UK on the Timesonline

Double Falsehood is now published.The lost play by Shakespeare, perfomed in 1613, is not a forgery. According to Professor Brean Hamnmond (University of Nottingham and editor of the Arden Shakespeare Collection) in the play, co-written by Shakespeare and the dramatist John Fletcher, the Bard's hand can be discerned in three of the acts. Researchers think it is based on Cardenio, which is itself based on de Cervantes' Don Quixote. According to Professor Hammond there are evidence that links the 18th century play "Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald to the lost Shakespearean play. Theobald has always mantained that his work was a re-working of Shakespeare's original.

See more:

An Interview with Professor Hammond (video)

The Timesonline
BBC-News

Can books survive in today’s digital society? Printed books have been the only means to get pleasure or education for human beings. But today technological devices can be viewed as a threat. A lunch lecture will be held at the Darwin Lecturer Theatre in London (Gower St.) by Ian Stevenson, UCL Centre for Publishing on March 11th 2010 from 13:15 to 13:55. Professor Stevenson’s lecture can be downloaded from UCL’s iTunesU from 7 days after the event.

For more information see http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:a4e-g32y7r7u-o276yr/ 

New evidence (three mysterious signatures on a parchment kept in the Venerable English College in Rome) prove that the Bard was a "secret Catholic".

For more information:

The Times Online

The Telegraph

Catholic Education Resource Centre

See a list of the Greatest British authors since 1945  (with a link for each of them) prepared by Erica Wagner for The Times.