The Cave Beneath the Globe
A dedication to Delia Bacon, the woman who heard the hidden state inside Shakespeare’s plays I did not enter this chamber through Stratford. I did not enter it through the Globe, nor through the court of Elizabeth, nor through the papers of Francis Bacon, nor through the wound of Essex House. I entered it through work. A child needed dropping at a dance class in Lincoln. That was all. A normal duty. A normal errand. One of those small acts the world forgets before the day has ended. But the...
