P g tait biography of william shakespeare

  • Tait was a great reader.
  • In this thesis, I argue that no biography of Shakespeare is possible due to insufficient material, that most of what is written about.
  • Tait himself proved it to be not true later.

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    I’ve been busy reading about Shakespeare at the moment, for a project at the Bodleian (discussion about which, incidentally, inspired my recent short story ‘Jane Austen wrote the works of William Shakespeare‘) and have grown irresistibly attracted to the anti-Stratfordian theories.  That is, the theories that someone other than William-Shakespeare-from-Stratford wrote the plays of William Shakespeare.

    Now, when I say that I have grown irresistibly attracted to them, I do not mean that I believe any of them.  Far from it.  I simply love reading about them – from Francis Bacon to the Earl of Oxford to (yes) Queen Elizabeth I – and the curious bendings of logic and likelihood which are necessary for their promulgation.  I’ve only been reading online so far (let me say, comments on Amazon reviews on Contested Will are hilarious, albeit admirably polite for the most part).  Here is a wonderful excerpt from Bill Bryson̵

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    Centre of South Asian Studies

    'Memories of Bangalore' - TS memoir(12 pp) by Margaret Tait:
    • Children's parties especially in Bangalore. Descriptionand history of Central College: influence and work of John Cook, (Principal1892-1908) on College and Bangalore Observatory and in installation ofX-ray equipment.
    • Poona murders, 1897.
    • Notes from diaries of J.G. Tait, and J. Cook. Memoriesof spectacular events and daglig life of a child. Cricket in Bangalore 1890-1914.
    • J.G. Tait succeeds J. Cook as Principal of the CentralCollege, 1908. C. Rajagopalachari's opinion of Mr. Tait, and other comments(Rajagopalachari was a pupil of Mr. J.G. Tait).
    • Memories of processions and the elaborate 1918 Armisticecelebrations.
        11. List of over 400 Indian booksowned by Miss Tait, mainly C20th., but with many C19th. and a few C18th.

    TALBOT PAPERS

    Given by Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Talbot

    India general: 1947

    Copies of two letters addressed to Mr. Walter S.Rogers of the Institute of

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    Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait.

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