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From: Phil Howerton <howerton@vnet.net>
The book you are referring to Galya, This Star of England, was written
by Charlton's father [also Charlton -- GD] and mother. You are correct,
though, that most of Charlton's books (thirteen in all, including The
Marauders, called by the New York Herald Tribune perhaps the best book
ever written about war) are about nature; The Winter Beach being the most
noted. The Shakespeare book, the one referred to by Peter, was published
in 1984. Charlton has spent much of his later life researching the
mystery; all out of his abiding love of Shakespeare.
With regard to N.'s saying that the Warwickshire fellow's authorship is
confirmed by the "applejohn" and the "pale primrose," I puzzled over
that myself when I was writing the piece for the Shakespeare/Oxford
Newsletter. I wrote DN about this and he referred me to Professor
Shuman and to Brian Boyd. I wrote each of them, even spoke to Mr.
Shuman on the phone, received replies from each, and neither could
enlighten me as to what N. was talking about. I concluded that N. was
making a joke. I based this on the assumption that N. would have
thought it ridiculous that applejohns and primroses were endemic only to
the banks of the Avon (on which, by the way, Oxford had a house) and
that only someone from Stratford could have known of their existence in
England.
I warned you that this had the potential of getting out of hand.
Cheers.
Phil
The book you are referring to Galya, This Star of England, was written
by Charlton's father [also Charlton -- GD] and mother. You are correct,
though, that most of Charlton's books (thirteen in all, including The
Marauders, called by the New York Herald Tribune perhaps the best book
ever written about war) are about nature; The Winter Beach being the most
noted. The Shakespeare book, the one referred to by Peter, was published
in 1984. Charlton has spent much of his later life researching the
mystery; all out of his abiding love of Shakespeare.
With regard to N.'s saying that the Warwickshire fellow's authorship is
confirmed by the "applejohn" and the "pale primrose," I puzzled over
that myself when I was writing the piece for the Shakespeare/Oxford
Newsletter. I wrote DN about this and he referred me to Professor
Shuman and to Brian Boyd. I wrote each of them, even spoke to Mr.
Shuman on the phone, received replies from each, and neither could
enlighten me as to what N. was talking about. I concluded that N. was
making a joke. I based this on the assumption that N. would have
thought it ridiculous that applejohns and primroses were endemic only to
the banks of the Avon (on which, by the way, Oxford had a house) and
that only someone from Stratford could have known of their existence in
England.
I warned you that this had the potential of getting out of hand.
Cheers.
Phil