Laurie Johnson

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A view towards St. Paul’s Cathedral and the City of London during low tide along the River Thames in London in August 2023. New research suggests the Little Ice Age was not nearly as cold and icy as the name would imply. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change

Madeline Bassnett, Western University and Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland

New research on the European Little Ice Age in England has upended established narratives and provided a window into an era of climatic instability not too different from our own.
John Fead, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, 1851. Wikimedia

Shakespeare’s lost playhouse – now under a supermarket

Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland

The first recorded performance of the theatre company that Shakespeare co-founded was at a playhouse south of the Thames, but was lost to historians for centuries. Now we know where it lies.
The pantheon of the Bard’s plays is now larger by one – or so the headlines would have you believe. George

Shakespeare’s Double Falsehood? Alas, that’s neither true nor false

Laurie Johnson, University of Southern Queensland

You’d be forgiven for thinking Double Falsehood was recently “found” and confirmed as being by Shakespeare. But that’s not what the researchers behind the computational tests actually said. So what’s up?

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