Blue Boar Tavern Nov. 4: Mark Your Calendars!

“Then take him up and manage well the jest.
Carry him gently to my fairest chamber
And hang it round with all my wanton pictures.
Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters . . . .
Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,
. . . say that he dreams,
For he is nothing but a mighty lord.”

     — The Taming of the Shrew, Induction

What do we really know as fact about William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon, the man some people believe wrote the literary works attributed to “Shakespeare”? And how do we know what we say we “know”? What is fact and what is fiction among the legends that have grown up around this most unlikely candidate as the celebrated Bard?

Join the regular cast of the Blue Boar Tavern — Bonner Cutting, Dorothea Dickerman, Alex McNeil, Phoebe Nir, and our bartender Jonathan Dixon — next Tuesday (Nov. 4), 5:00 pm Pacific, 8:00 pm Eastern, as we welcome Tom Woosnam back to the Tavern with a glass of Cabernet on the house to discuss this topic.

We think you’ll be surprised by how much isn’t what you may have been led to believe!