#authorship question

[socialshakespeare]

We don't keep a list of scholarly links at hand, @little-lady-lou, so we're turning this question to everyone.

Help a Shakespeep out!

[vol-au-vending-machine]

Say what you like about Francis Bacon, he didn't hide his light under a bushel. If he wrote the Shakespearean canon, we'd know. Because he wouldn't shut up about it.

[his-quietus-make]

It needs to be said that nearly all of the anti-Shakespeare sentiment - actually all of it, every bit - involves manipulative scholarship or sweeping misstatements of fact. [I]n the normally unimpeachable History Today, William D. Rubinstein, a professor at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, stated in the opening paragraph of his anti-Shakespeare survey: 'Of the seventy-five known contemporary documents in which Shakespeare is named, not one concerns his career as an author.' That is not even close to being so. In the Master of Revels' accounts for 1604-5 - that is, the record of plays performed before the King, about as official a record as a record can be - Shakespeare is named seven times as the author of plays performed before James I. He is identified on the title pages as the author of the sonnets and in the dedications of the poems The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. He is named as author on several quarto editions of his plays, by Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia, and (allusively but unmistakably) by Robert Greene in the Groats-worth of Wit. John Webster identifies him as one of the great playwrights of the age in his preface to The White Devil. The only absence among contemporary records is not of documents connecting Shakespeare to his works but of documents connecting any other human being to them.

Shakespeare - Bill Bryson

[vol-au-vending-machine]

What she says: I'm fine

What she means: If the Oxfordians believe that de Vere wrote the plays, how do they explain the sonnet sequence and the epic poems? If Shakespeare had the technical skill to write some of the most beautiful poetry in the English language, clearly he had the skill to adapt and script pre-existing stories and histories for the stage, especially as the plays are not always amazing. If de Vere wrote the sonnets and epic poems, why then did he not publish them? He published other poems under his own name, so why not the poems that would have been his best work? Why only the mediocre-to-good poems we have under his own name?

[burningvelvet]

the marlowe conspiracy pages are WILD

[shakespeareoxfordfellowship]

Professor Waugaman Named Oxfordian of the Year

by Bryan H. Wildenthal Richard M. Waugaman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, was honored today as Oxfordian of the Year for 2021. Professor Richard M. Waugaman, M.D., 2021 Oxfordian of the Year Cheryl Eagan-Donovan, 2019 Oxfordian of the Year and chair of this year’s selection committee, introduced James A. Warren, the 2020 honoree. Warren in turn announced…

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The Oxfordian, Volume 23, Is Now Available

Largest-Ever Issue Contains Major New Discoveries Click to see larger image. The largest issue ever published of the SOF annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal, The Oxfordian, has been published. It contains nine research papers and four book and movie reviews, and is available in print on Amazon for only $14.99. SOF members will receive free access to the entire issue in PDF form on our website…

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Warren Publishes History of Oxfordian Movement

Scholar James A. Warren has published a comprehensive history of the Oxfordian movement from its founding in 1920 to the present day. The new book, Shakespeare Revolutionized: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified, studies the impact of Looney’s work identifying Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the author of the plays and poems. Warren delves deeply into…

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