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The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare:
THE UNDISCOVERED DIARY OF HIS STRANGE EVENTFUL LIFE AND LOVES
edited and adapted by Terry Tamminen based on a true story
Be among the first to read the book or review the pre-publication manuscript. The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare will soon be available as an audio book, e-book, and printed edition, edited and adapted after more than two decades of painstaking research by Terry Tamminen.
Sign up to review the pre-publication manuscript, to receive a special early edition of the book, and to discover more unique insights into Shakespeare’s life and work.
A publication of Shakespeare House Press
The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare:
THE UNDISCOVERED DIARY OF HIS STRANGE EVENTFUL LIFE AND LOVES
edited and adapted by Terry Tamminen based on a true story
Be among the first to read the book or review the pre-publication manuscript. The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare will soon be available as an audio book, e-book, and printed edition, edited and adapted after more than two decades of painstaking research by Terry Tamminen.
Sign up to review the pre-publication manuscript, to receive a special early edition of the book, and to discover more unique insights into Shakespeare’s life and work.
A publication of Shakespeare House Press
The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare:
THE UNDISCOVERED DIARY OF HIS STRANGE EVENTFUL LIFE AND LOVES
edited and adapted by Terry Tamminen based on a true story
Be among the first to read the book or review the pre-publication manuscript. The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare will soon be available as an audio book, e-book, and printed edition, edited and adapted after more than two decades of painstaking research by Terry Tamminen.
Sign up to review the pre-publication manuscript, to receive a special early edition of the book, and to discover more unique insights into Shakespeare’s life and work.
A publication of Shakespeare House Press
Discover Shakespeare’s lost letters
Discover Shakespeare’s lost letters
How a sometimes starving actor discovered Shakespeare’s lost letters and what they reveal
My name is Terry Tamminen and you may know me from my work in California state government or as an environmental advisor to leaders in dozens of countries. But many years before that, I had another career. In 1989 I was an actor and performed a one-man play about the life of William Shakespeare in London. “Miss B”, an elderly woman who had seen the play more than once, was apparently sufficiently impressed by my impersonation of the Bard that she offered to show me some old, never-published letters that she believed were written by William Shakespeare. Although I was initially skeptical, it was an offer too good to pass up and, to be honest, as a struggling actor in those days, I didn’t have anything better to do with my time! We met almost daily for several weeks and what I discovered began to unravel almost everything I thought I knew about the great poet and playwright.
How a sometimes starving actor discovered Shakespeare’s lost letters and what they reveal
My name is Terry Tamminen and you may know me from my work in California state government or as an environmental advisor to leaders in dozens of countries. But many years before that, I had another career. In 1989 I was an actor and performed a one-man play about the life of William Shakespeare in London. “Miss B”, an elderly woman who had seen the play more than once, was apparently sufficiently impressed by my impersonation of the Bard that she offered to show me some old, never-published letters that she believed were written by William Shakespeare. Although I was initially skeptical, it was an offer too good to pass up and, to be honest, as a struggling actor in those days, I didn’t have anything better to do with my time! We met almost daily for several weeks and what I discovered began to unravel almost everything I thought I knew about the great poet and playwright.
Read The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves
Be among the first to read the book or review the pre-publication manuscript
The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves will soon be available as an audio book, e-book, and printed edition [click here to Discover the Lost Letters], edited and adapted after more than two decades of painstaking research by Terry Tamminen [click here to read more about the author]. Sign up to review the pre-publication manuscript, to receive a special early edition of the book, and to discover more unique insights into Shakespeare’s life and work.
Read The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves
Be among the first to read the book or review the pre-publication manuscript
The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves will soon be available as an audio book, e-book, and printed edition [click here to Discover the Lost Letters], edited and adapted after more than two decades of painstaking research by Terry Tamminen [click here to read more about the author]. Sign up to review the pre-publication manuscript, to receive a special early edition of the book, and to discover more unique insights into Shakespeare’s life and work.
Help fund the further research and publication of books II and III (be among the first to read the books)
Our Indiegogo Campaign aims to raise $100,000 to:
Help fund the further research and publication of books II and III (be among the first to read the books)
Our Indiegogo Campaign aims to raise $100,000 to:
- Produce the audiobook with professional actors.
- Design and publish the Lost Letters e-book and print editions.
- Post the Lost Letters and my research on an exciting interactive website where you can help to discover more about the people, places, and amazing events described by William Shakespeare in his letters.
- Fund experts and scholars working to confirm Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays and poems as they analyze the Lost Letters and new historical discoveries, uncovering his surprising array of collaborators.
Our goal is to make the Lost Letters easily accessible to everyone worldwide at the same time! The Lost Letters will be published this year, regardless of how much this campaign raises, but your help in any amount will go a long way to making that possible.
- Produce the audiobook with professional actors.
- Design and publish the Lost Letters e-book and print editions.
- Post the Lost Letters and my research on an exciting interactive website where you can help to discover more about the people, places, and amazing events described by William Shakespeare in his letters.
- Fund experts and scholars working to confirm Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays and poems as they analyze the Lost Letters and new historical discoveries, uncovering his surprising array of collaborators.
Our goal is to make the Lost Letters easily accessible to everyone worldwide at the same time! The Lost Letters will be published this year, regardless of how much this campaign raises, but your help in any amount will go a long way to making that possible.
Thank you to those who have already supported this project:
- Luke Bretscher
- Kristina Haddad
- Richard Baskin
- Kyle Stooshnov
- Ben Robertson
- Kristina Haddad
- Kyle Stooshnov
- John C. Cronin
- Katherine Silverman
- Douglas Lanier
- Ed Begley
- Tempest Wisdom
- Bonnie Reiss
- Rebecca Pauly
TERRY TAMMINEN
TERRY TAMMINEN
Who found The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves
Although he studied theatre and spent several years performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays, Terry Tamminen may be the most unlikely person to have discovered The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare: The Undiscovered Diary of his Strange Eventful Life and Loves
MEET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MEET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Even the most avid theatre-goers may not know much about Shakespeare’s life. There has also been a good deal of confusion created by those who say he didn’t write the plays and poems that are generally attributed to him; those who say he didn’t even exist; and biographers who have tried to fill in gaps in our factual, historical knowledge with conjecture. This Brief Bio therefore, should help the reader of these letters to understand the generally accepted facts about his life, family, and accomplishments. The dates shown for Shakespeare’s plays and poems are based on information in the letters. Until now, the estimates by various experts of these dates (and the order in which the plays and poems were written) vary widely, but agree about the general period of Shakespeare’s life in which he wrote them. There are also disagreements about which plays he wrote or contributed to, although the ‘First Folio’, a compilation
of his plays published seven years after his death, is generally accepted as representing his work. Based on the letters, we also now know that he wrote several plays that were not included in that compilation. First a little context of the world he was born into – – and what was about to change. If you grew up in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the U.S. or Europe, as I did, your world was orderly and predictable. After the turmoil of two world wars in thirty years, people were content with bland normalcy. Dad worked; mom raised the kids at home. Everyone went to church on Sunday (OK, a few went to synagogues or Mosques on Friday night, but the point is that just about everyone ritually participated in a mainstream religion). We all talked about the same TV shows around the water cooler or at school, heard the same music on the radio, and we all smoked. By 1970, all of what we thought was normal began to change.