Thanks for your note. I’ll send you an email directly to respond to the academic aspects. The play will be produced in London, opening March 5th. (See the “Upcoming Productions” tab on my website.) Perhaps you could make it down to see it. I’m considering having it published, but I’m waiting until after the first two productions to submit it.

Regards, Don

I would love to see your play ‘Shakespeare Incorporated’, it sounds like a hoot. Do you plan to publish it in the near future, perhaps on-line?
I am researching Brenda James’ theory that Henry Neville was Shakespeare. I have found many interesting encryptions in the 1609 Edition of the Sonnets and the long poem, “A Lovers Complaint’. I am currently writing a book of my findings, with a play (historical fiction) at the center of the book (The plays the thing…) concerning 21 year old Henry Neville’s first meeting, in 1584, with 10 year old Henry Wriothesley at Lord Burghley’s House (Southampton became a ward of Burghleys in 1581 at the age of 8, after his father died), when he visited Lord Burghley with his fiance Anne Killigrew, Lord Burghley’s niece. When you consider that the Shakespeare plays were to appear very soon after this meeting (late 1580s) and that Wriothesley and Neville were lifelong associates (friends?), this meeting could have been the ‘begetting of these insuing sonnets’, where Mr. W.H. became the pseudonym Master Wily Hews for young Henry Wriothesley as he enacts sonnets 1-17, in drag, written by Neville/Shakespeare, for the Dark Lady, 21 year old Penelope Rich, to attempt to entice her brother, 17 year old Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, to marry before he foolishly rushes off to battle, potentially leaving himself heirless.
I am a novice writer, but I have 15,000 words written in the play, and over 50 pages concerning my decryptions. I am wondering if you did any research for ‘Shakespeare Incorporated’ that dealt with Henry Neville, and if you did, what impression you had with his potential as the author.

Sincerely,

David Ewald