![]() ![]() I mentioned that we had exchanged faxes in July 1998 on the Catholic Question (the text of Wood's reply to me was posted on HLAS not long ago). ![]() When I handed a copy of my book review essay to Wood before his lecture be was a bit stunned by its detailed analysis. The point of contention is Stanley Wells' open hostility to the secret Catholic Bard theory (see his Shakespeare: For All Time, reviewed in this issue by Ramon Jimenez) and Wood's strong emphasis in his new book-and-film combination entitled, In Search of Shakespeare, which focuses on the growing biographical evidence pointing to Shakespeare's strong, enduring and secret attachment to Roman Catholicism. On October 29, Michael Wood lectured at the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC on Shakespeare's purported Catholic faith, just two days after Stanley Wells had appeared (see the report on Wells' lecture in this edition of the newsletter, page 16). ![]()
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