Shakespeare and The Audley End Annotations: A Bird’s Eye View Roger Stritmatter

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Shakespeare and the Audley End Annotations: A Bird’s Eye View
We’re delighted to launch our Substack channel with the first in a five-part series by Roger Stritmatter.

In this opening essay, Roger takes us inside the extraordinary Audley End Library, where over 1,800 handwritten notes—many in Greek and Latin—reveal striking parallels to Shakespeare’s Roman plays. Exploring their scope, provenance, and forensic importance, this piece invites a provocative question: could these annotations be the raw material behind Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra?

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Stay tuned for the next instalments in this groundbreaking series—exclusively on Shakespeare Identified.