Thomas Mann filled a lot of my time, alongside the non-Shakespearian stuff. Just two plays to go in this round, George Chapman’s All Fools and John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan. NOT SHAKESPEARE Selected Poems (1593-1630), Michael Drayton – The line in the title is from his sonnet 61, among the few that really stand with Shakespeare’s best. How many great poems must one write to be a great poet? The Malcontent (1603), John Marston – The best play I picked for this round of Not Shakespeare. Next fall they will almost all be this good or better. Discussed over here. A Woman Killed by Kindness (1603), Thomas Heywood – Weepy melodrama, poked at here. The Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), anonymous – Simple-minded true crime on the London stage. Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers (2026), Darren Freebury-Jones – Freebury-Jones is a leading scholar in the world of attribution – which bits of which plays belong to whom. I have avoided looking too closely at the field, suspecting I would rather not know…
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