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Dennis McCarthy
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dennismccarthy.substack.com; Author of “Thomas North: The Original Author of Shakespeare’s Plays” & “Here Be Dragons,” a book on biogeography
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I do hope you join me and watch live as the 400-year-old mystery of the identity of the Dark Lady is finally solved. Next Sunday (9/21/2025) 5 PM EST: payhip.com/b/1uTnL
Shakespeare's Dark Lady Revealed Live (Zoom Presentation)
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September 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The most common question I am asked is: What about the sonnets? Well, here it is: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-origin...
The Origin of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Here it comes ...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Latest post is a big one and comments by subscribers have been generous. We're now #32 Rising in Literature on Substack: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/explaining...
Explaining the First Folio (and the Final Shakespeare Mystery)
This is the post for which all authorship scholars have been waiting
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June 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Petrova case is a perfect microcosm of the Trump administration. It’s stupid, primitive, Draconian, anti-intellectual, anti-foreigner, anti-Harvard, anti-science, anti-J-1-Visa, & anti-Ukraine. It’s ignorant and despicable in every direction. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/these-stup...
These Stupid, Vicious Cocksuckers
Harvard anti-aging scientist fighting deportation and imprisonment in Russia is now charged with smuggling
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May 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Breaking News on what seems to be the most significant discovery in the history of the world: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/were-not-s...
We're Not Saying It's Aliens, But ... It's Aliens
The New York Times reports what appears to be the most significant signal for extraterrestrial life ever recorded
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April 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is the most stunning fact about the Shakespeare authorship question, and almost no one knows about it: Most of the plays that were attributed to Shakespeare while he was alive (and up till 1620) are NOT the same plays that we think he wrote today! dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/travelling...
Travelling Back in Time To Determine Exactly What Shakespeare Really Wrote
A review of all title pages and documents of the era is actually quite shocking:
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April 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Huge article today that explains the other half of the Shakespeare mystery. Yes, we know Shakespeare adapted old plays--but what exactly was his contribution? dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/what-shake...
What Shakespeare Really Wrote
According to straightforward readings of all title pages and documents of the era, the answer is obvious.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This provides a summary of the proofs and evidence that North wrote the plays that Shakespeare later adapted: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/how-we-kno...
How We Know Thomas North Wrote the Plays that Shakespeare Later Adapted
Free, sharable post that summarizes the proofs of North's original authorship
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March 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
One of my popular posts--now free: "The Meaning of Life and the Greatest Sentence Ever Written [Unpaywalled]" open.substack.com/pub/dennismc...
The Meaning of Life and the Greatest Sentence Ever Written [Unpaywalled]
“All The Mysteries That Remain” is a reader-supported publication and the result of decades of research.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Don't read this unless you're curious who wrote the original version of this play
[Free post:] Everyone believed "The Winter's Tale" was just a dazzling and gaudy fairy-tale filled with eye-popping impossibilities. In fact, it is, like "Animal Farm," an important, clear-eyed, politically oriented, symbolically precise fairytale-à-clef. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-450-ye...
The 450-Year-Old Secret Behind Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" [Unpaywalled]
As discovered in Thomas North's travel diary, the play is not just a magical fairytale but based on real events
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February 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
[Free post:] Everyone believed "The Winter's Tale" was just a dazzling and gaudy fairy-tale filled with eye-popping impossibilities. In fact, it is, like "Animal Farm," an important, clear-eyed, politically oriented, symbolically precise fairytale-à-clef. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-450-ye...
The 450-Year-Old Secret Behind Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" [Unpaywalled]
As discovered in Thomas North's travel diary, the play is not just a magical fairytale but based on real events
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February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
North actually roamed the fairy-strewn forest & saw the wondrous visions described in the magical comedy dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-specta...
The Spectacular Party That Inspired Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
North actually roamed the fairy-strewn forest & saw the wondrous visions described in the magical comedy
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February 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The wonderful Dennis McCarthy @dennismccarthy.bsky.social points out how Elon Musk's recent acts of "cruelty and inhumanity" have precedent in a sinister method practiced in the Roman Republic.

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Musk-iavelli: There's a Sinister Method Behind Elon's Seeming Madness
As he did with Twitter, Elon is now purging all potential enemies in one quick and brutal strike
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February 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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"Musk-iavelli: There's a Sinister Method Behind Elon's Seeming Madness" writes Dennis McCarthy aka @4therevolt on Xitter or
@dennismccarthy.bsky.social - check it out on Substack dennismccarthy.subst... If you've been struggling to make sense of all this chaos, perhaps Dennis has insights.
Musk-iavelli: There's a Sinister Method Behind Elon's Seeming Madness
As he did with Twitter, Elon is now purging all potential enemies in one quick and brutal strike
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February 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Whether usurping nations or companies, Musk knows it’s best to purge all potential enemies from the old regime in a sudden, ruthless, and sweeping strike. dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/musk-iavel...
Musk-iavelli: There's a Sinister Method Behind Elon's Seeming Madness
As he did with Twitter, Elon is now purging all potential enemies in one quick and brutal strike
dennismccarthy.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It seems hard to believe but Thomas North really lived Shakespeare's plays. Even the cannibalistic banquet that is the climactic scene of "Titus Andronicus" had relevance to North's life: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/thomas-nor...
Thomas North Literally Lived the Shakespeare Plays (Part 1: 1550s-1560s)
Here are the iconic scenes from Shakespeare plays that North, himself, experienced
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February 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Significantly, as it turns out, "The Winter's Tale" is not, as everyone believes, just a fairytale, but a precise and historical allegory: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-stunni...
The Stunning, 450-Year-Old Secret Behind Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale"
As discovered in Thomas North's travel diary, the play is not just a magical fairytale but based on real events
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January 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Before the election I noted Trump is going to appoint "A Parliament of Psychos" with people like Kash Patel serving as "Lavarentiy Beria" who said "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." Now, John Bolton is saying it: dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/psychophan...
December 12, 2024 at 3:53 PM