To Access the Full show, please Login to your Club 19.5 membership: <a href="https://www.theothersideofmidnight.com/club-19_5-login/" title="Sign In">Sign In</a>https://content.streamhoster.com/file/osom/osom/Katherine-Chiljan_Will-theRealWilliamShakespearePleaseStandUp_NewEvidence_20200111_OSOM-1stHr.mp3Podcast (1sthour): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:13 — 63.8MB)Subscribe: RSS Who was William Shakespeare?   If this sounds like the beginnings of a bad joke or a trick question, it’s not; serious scholars — like my guest tonight, Katherine Chiljan  — have been asking this fundamental question about the true identity of “William Shakespeare, the great Elizabethan playwright,” for the last 400 years!   You see, it’s like this:   Yes, there was a real “William Shakespeare” — who, according to multiple town records, was born, lived in and died in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1607; the problem is, after hundreds of years of subsequent Shakespeare-the-poet-and-playwright scholarship, there’s no DIRECT evidence that Stratford Shakespeare … was Poet Shakespeare!   Looking deeper into this remarkable authorship controversy, one can clearly see from other evidence that, in fact, the […]