Our series celebrating the World Shakespeare festival continues with a look at the playwright's mutual love affair with ItalyAccording to a most eccentric breed of anti-Stratfordians " the people who argue that Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare " Shakespeare was quite literally Italian. His name, they suggest, was Crollanza or Scrollalanza ("shake-speare"), before he moved to London from Sicily via northern Italy. Fanci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:58PM on July 25, 2016