North of Shakespeare: The True Story of the Secret Genius Who Wrote the World's Greatest Body of Literature

"North of Shakespeare" was published early in 2011 in order to establish priority on the Thomas North discovery. Access to "North of Shakespeare" has been temporarily halted in order to make way for Dennis McCarthy's latest book on "Thomas North." which will be published in late 2015- or early 2016. With Dennis McCarthy's first book, "Here Be Dragons / How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth" (Oxford UP, 2009), many reviewers highlighted the book's power to transform the way we see the world: "The Huffington Post" described it as "a grand time-and-space voyage of the imagination," concluding that "at the end of the book you will be someone different." "Science News" referred to the work as "fascinating and revelatory." And "Science Magazine" declared, "[W]e will never look at the world in the same way again." McCarthy has also published revealing papers in the leading journals of English literature, geophysics, and biogeography. In a 2007 paper for "The Journal of Geophysical Research," McCarthy became the first researcher to provide the correct explanation for the global distribution of continents and oceans. This became the subject of a number of major news reports around the globe, and "Der Spiegel" noted that the "study surprises the professional world." More recently, McCarthy's 2009 paper for Oxford's "Notes and Queries" was the first to identify the long-sought source for Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy. McCarthy will now transform our view of Shakespeare in the same way that his past works have helped change our views on the history of life and Earth.