Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans

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Has German Technology Crowned a New Shakespeare Portrait King?
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Lee Durkee

May 2023

The Hampton Court Portrait of Shakespeare
How an Examination of Costume Raises Questions
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Lee Durkee

March 2023

Two Early Reviews of STALKING SHAKESPEARE: a Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint (due out from Scribner…
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Lee Durkee

August 2022

DOES THIS PORTRAIT MINIATURE DEPICT THE FAIR YOUTH 3RD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON?
This beautiful portrait miniature, kept in London's excellent Victoria & Albert Museum, was for years identified on that museum's web page without…
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Lee Durkee

May 2022

A Curious Portrait of a Man Stabbed 57 Times That Might Actually Be A Famous Lost Painting Of William Shakespeare
Left: portrait known as David Rizzio (Royal Collection, artist unknown, image from Wikicommons).
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Lee Durkee

October 2020

My Novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER Splashed Across Front Page of Le Monde's Weekly Book Review
In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined this happening.
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Lee Durkee

September 2020

Does the 1608 Play A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY Contain One of Shakespeare's Greatest Soliloquies?
1608 Quarto of A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY attributed to "Shakspeare" (Wikicommons).
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Lee Durkee

March 2020

My New Novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER Featured in Harper's Magazine April 2020 Issue
Very happy to report that Harper's magazine just (re)published the first chapter of my brand new novel THE LAST TAXI DRIVER (Tin House Books) in their…
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REVIEWS FOR THE LAST TAXI DRIVER
Clockwise from upper right: French, American, UK, American (paper), and Italian editions.
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Lee Durkee

November 2019

My Final Argument that the Portrait of an Unknown Fashion Fantastico in North Carolina Depicts the Privateer Sir Thomas Cavendish
Above: Unknown Gent (left, NCMA 67.13.4) & Sir Thomas Cavendish (right, image via Alamy.com)
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Lee Durkee

October 2019

The Work of a Moment: the Mysterious Ghost Girl Portrait in the North Carolina Museum of Art
Above:detail from NCMA.67.13.6
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Lee Durkee

September 2019

A Curious Portrait In Which the New Countess of Southampton Poses With a Dog That Is Wearing an Elizabethan Ruff (Ruff) Doggie Collar
Above: Portrait of Elizabeth Vernon Countess of Southampton in Her Boudoir by Unknown Artist c.
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