Author and researcher Dennis McCarthy will provide an entertaining and dramatic look at a series of Shakespeare-related discoveries that have made the front page of The New York Times, Boston Globe Magazine (cover story), The (London) Times, The Guardian, and other media outlets throughout the world. He will also be reading from his latest book: “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Source Plays.”
About the author: McCarthy is best known as the "rogue scholar" who is the subject of New York Times bestselling author Michael Blanding's In Shakespeare's Shadow: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays (Hachette Books, 2022). He has published two academic books with June Schlueter, Professor Emerita of English, Lafayette College, including Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare (FDU Press, 2021). His first book, Here Be Dragons: How the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of life and Earth (Oxford University Press, 2009), introduced the subject of biogeography (the intersection of evolution and geography) to the general public. Science News described it as "fascinating and revelatory;" and Science Magazine declared, "we will never look at the world in the same way again." McCarthy brought a scientific approach to Shakespeare studies to make discoveries that have surprised the world.
