No sooner do I reference Henry II’s role in the death of St. Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in last week’s column, news comes that Canterbury Cathedral hosted a dance party over the weekend.
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Many theories have been put forward as to 'who wrote Shakespeare', with a slather of candidates going in and out of fashion. But they all face the same objection: Why did they suddenly start writing upon Christopher Marlowe’s purported death, and stop writing when Shakespeare 'retired'? A surviving Marlowe killed not as claimed in a fight over the cost of dinner fits the bill
The what-ifs of history are the most tantalising way of looking at the past. And among the many alternative histories that came very close to being reality was