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| | Shakespearean authorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The above refers to what might be termed the "popular" authorship debate, which revolves around the question of the identity of the true author the Shakespearean canon. | | | However, Bacon would emerge again as a candidate in the nineteenth century when, at the height of bardolatry, the "authorship question" was popularised. | | | There is, however, another authorship debate among academic scholars of literature. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Authorship
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| | Shakespearean authorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The above refers to what might be termed the "popular" authorship debate, which revolves around the question of the identity of the true author the Shakespearean canon. | | | Wilmot was familiar with the writings of Francis Bacon and formed the opinion that he was more likely the real author of the Shakespearean canon. | | | Elizabeth Wells Gallup examined Bacon's "bi-lateral cipher" (in which two typefaces were used as a method of encoding) and announced that Bacon was not only the author of the Shakespearean works but also the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth, the product of a secret marriage. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_authorship
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| | Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Diana Price |
| | A reader (from Los Angeles, CA) on www.amazon.com (1/9/01): "Essential for those who wish to come to grips with the Shakespearean authorship problem, first as an exposition of the anti-Stratfordian case, and second as a reference work of the first order.... | | | The Elizabethan Review (by Warren Hope, 11/20/00): "Her book [is] unlike any book dealing with the Shakespeare authorship question that has appeared in years. | | | William Rubinstein, examines the authorship controversy and suggests five books, including Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography for further reading. |
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http://www.shakespeare-authorship.com/reviews/reviews.asp
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| | Shakespeare Authorship FAQ |
| | Thus, not only is there a Shakespeare authorship controversy which, the more one examines the evidence, recedes back into the 16th century, there is also an Oxford authorship problem for which Shakespearean orthodoxy can supply no intelligent response. | | | Second, acknowledging Oxford's authorship radically transforms our understanding of politics, propaganda and history as well as our understanding of the author and three centuries of scholarship about him. | | | The longer answer is that the authorship question asks not who could have written the plays. |
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http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/faqfina3.htm
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| | Monarch Notes - Tragedies and Sonnets of William Shakespeare |
| | Those of this persuasion insist that the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere (whose descendant Charles Vere recently spoke up for the Earl's authorship of the Shakespearean plays), or Sir Francis Bacon, or someone else wrote the Shakespearean plays. | | | Perhaps the most egregious are those who cannot conceive that the Shakespearean plays were written by a person not a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge and destitute of the insights permitted by foreign travel and by life at court. | | | Shakespearean writings can become a vast whispering gallery where Shakespeare himself is heard hic et ubique (here and everywhere), without an atom of documentary proof. |
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http://www.communism.net/index3.html
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| | The Education of the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford Mirrored in the Shakespeare Canon |
| | With that rebuke, which in one sweeping dismissal forever determined the course of the conversation about Shakespeare that would be permitted in the domain where his captain reigned, all discussion about the authorship of the Shakespeare canon on board the ship came to an end. | | | richest flowerings in the history of Western literature" (vii)a view of the poets intellectual infirmity not far removed from that advanced by Professor Tucker Brooke of Yale University, who similarly has proposed that because "Shakespeare did not bring with him from Stratford a very plastic, or, as we should say, a trained mind. | | | Hamlet draws conspicuously for much of its dramatic color on a variety of contributory works such as Brights A Treatise of Melancholy (1586), a 1572 translation of Lavaters Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night, and at least one of the stories from the fifth volume of Belleforests Histoires Tragiques (1570). |
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| | New |
| | You might think that by now orthodox Shakespeareans would have taken notice that the "argument from chronology" for excluding the Earl of Oxford's proposed authorship of the Shakespearean canon has the intellectual value of a 1940's bowling trophy. | | | We're proud to present Robert Brazil's essay, "Unpacking Merry Wives of Windsor," reprinted from The Oxfordian, as our first offering on the exciting topic of reading Shakespearean comedies from the Oxfordian perspective. | | | Although the book is almost ten years old, it remains among the most popular and readable books on the authorship question. |
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http://www.shakespearefellowship.org/new.html
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| | Volker Multhopp's Small Shakespeare Page |
| | Clark Holloway's site is especially commendable for its many accessible Shakespearean images, many authorship related. | | | There are hundreds of Stratfordian sites, some of which go into the authorship debate with some seriousness, but theirs is by far the most in-depth and is a must for anyone pursuing the authorship question. | | | Humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare is the internet newsgroup for discussing Shakespeare authorship, or anything about Shakespeare. |
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http://users.erols.com/volker/Shakes/index.html
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| | Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 1, 1999: Emma Smith |
| | Authorship does make a difference, and the fact that its editor Gregori Melchiori is not claiming sole Shakespearean authorship for King Edward III matters less than the play's appearance in the standard uniform of the Cambridge Shakespearean canon. | | | Studies of Shakespeare and authorship have tended to lag behind theoretical discussions of the role of the author in the text, and the introduction to Pericles, and to King Edward III, could stand as usefully under-theorised complements for students reading Barthes' 'The Death of the Author' and Foucault's 'What is an author?'. | | | The strength of the discussion of authorship, however, is its interleaving with the play's manipulation of its sources in Holinshed and Froissart: Melchiori thus establishes a model of collaboration which extends fruitfully beyond the debates about who wrote which scene, into something more like the extensive web of allusions and influences characterised as intertextuality. |
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http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v4no1/smith.htm
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| | The "Catholic Bard" and the Authorship Question: Anti-Stratfordian loon Peter W. Dickson (well known to Shakespearean newsgroup readers) gets a forum in The Weekly Standard for his thesis that Shakespeare of Stratford's (alleged) Roman Catholicism disproves his authorship of the works that bear his name. | | | A new Shakespearean discovery: A contemporary marginal note, hitherto overlooked, suggests that Shakespeare's reputation as an actor was higher than most scholars suppose. | | | More stritmatter and a new authorship book: A debate at the pro-Oxfordian Shakespeare Fellowship exposes further blunders by the movement's academic whiz, and two linguists announce a truly outré addition to the authorship "controversy". |
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http://members.tripod.com/stromata/id19.htm
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| | Shakespearean Authorship Trust |
| | With this in mind, The Shakespearean Authorship Trust (SAT) wishes to create a forum where the authorship of the plays and poems can be discussed courteously and rationally and from a variety of different perspectives, in the knowledge that conflicting and even opposing viewpoints can offer equally valid insight into the works. | | | Founded on the 6 November 1922 in Hackney, London, the Shakespearean Authorship Trust was originally called the Shakespeare Fellowship, and is now a registered charity. | | | Our objective is the advancement of learning with particular reference to the social, political and literary history of England in the 16th and 17th centuries and the authorship of the literary works that appeared under the name of William Shakespeare. |
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| | Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre and Library at Concordia University |
| | Concordia University is committed to the establishment of a Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre to house the university's growing Shakespearean library and to serve as a permanent academic home, equipped with state-of-the-art research tools, for students and scholars who wish to pursue studies focused on the Shakespeare Authorship Question. | | | To house and administer the research centre (an estimated $6 million dollar project), the university plans to construct a $35 million library and create a $1 million endowed Chair in Shakespearean Authorship Studies. | | | To contribute to the library, the research centre and /or to endow the Chair in Shakespearean Studies, contact Concordia University Foundation Director Dr. John Driessner at jdriessner@cu-portland.edu and Professor Wright at dwright@cu-portland.edu |
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http://www.deverestudies.org/library/index.cfm
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| | Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 1, 1999: Emma Smith |
| | Authorship does make a difference, and the fact that its editor Gregori Melchiori is not claiming sole Shakespearean authorship for King Edward III matters less than the play's appearance in the standard uniform of the Cambridge Shakespearean canon. | | | Analysing the play as a prelude to Shakespeare's second historical cycle which begins with Richard II, Melchiori finds in King Edward III patterns of reunion, advice, reformation and victory recognisable from the Henry IV plays and Henry V, and the introduction is more concerned with Shakespearean parallels than with the wider genre of history. | | | Studies of Shakespeare and authorship have tended to lag behind theoretical discussions of the role of the author in the text, and the introduction to Pericles, and to King Edward III, could stand as usefully under-theorised complements for students reading Barthes' 'The Death of the Author' and Foucault's 'What is an author?'. |
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| | GlassSlippers97.htm |
| | In the latter case there are enough contrary examples to suggest that something still seems to be squishy, either the definition of a "Shakespearean who" or the definition of "immeasurably small," or the comprehensiveness of the Vassar archive, or the exhaustiveness with which it was canvassed. | | | It may be, of course, that we need better guidance in recognizing "Shakespearean who's"; or it may be that some or all of the poets named learned to write on Shakespeare's knee, or he on theirs. | | | Nonetheless, it seems hard to imagine serious, comprehensive authorship work in the future taking place without reference to computer-aided analysis. |
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http://govt.mckenna.edu/welliott/GlassSlippers97.htm
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| | Bookstore - Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference |
| | Professor Vickers' repudiation of the hollow claims advanced by such professors as Gary Taylor and Donald Foster for the Shakespearean authorship of such non-Shakespearean works as the poems, "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. | | | Professors Brame and Popova's linguistic case for the authorship by Edward de Vere of works extending far beyond the plays and poems conventionally attributed to Shakespeare. | | | US News and World Report's"Mysteries of History" issue features a significant article on the Shakespeare Authorship Question with a glowing assessment of the Oxfordian thesis. |
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| | Durning Lawrence Library - The Bacon-Shakespeare authorship controversy |
| | The earliest alternative claim for Shakespearean authorship, it was mooted in the 1850s. | | | Ignatius Donnelly (The Great Cryptogram, 2 vols, London, 1888) argued for concealed messages claiming the authorship of Shakespearean plays within the plays, a stance which subsequent Baconians took up enthusiastically. | | | The Bacon-Shakespeare authorship controversy, also known as the Baconian theory, consists of the view that Francis Bacon (1561-1626) wrote the plays commonly attributed to Shakespeare. |
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| | Relate this theme to the problem of Shakespearean authorship. | | | If you are not already familiar with the authorship question or the case for de Vere's authorship, we urge you to educate yourself on the subject before proceeding further with our essay contest. | | | Expository essays will be judged on the basis of originality of thought, insight into the Shakespearean experience, effective and logical development of thesis and other relevant factors such as consideration of contrary evidence, effective use of resources, and elegance of style. |
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| | Jessica Frank |
| | However, evidence does exist to support at least two theories about the Shakespearean authorship: one that the man from Stratford wrote the works, the other that Edward de Vere the Earl of Oxford was the author. | | | Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford was first nominated as a candidate for the Shakespearean authorship in 1920 by J. Thomas Looney (Niederkorn). | | | Though the evidence for Oxford as the author of the Shakespearean canon is impressive, the lowly man from Stratford remains the true Bard. |
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http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/j/s/jsf134/refinal.htm
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| | JOHN THOMAS LOONEY BIO |
| | John Thomas Looney, who first attributed the authorship of the "Shakespearean" plays and sonnets to Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was a master at an elementary school in Low Fell, Gateshead, County Durham. | | | Further when Looney was asked how such a deception as to the authorship could be carried through and maintained, he would expound the peculiar literary atmosphere of the Elizabethan age and then enumerate, from cultural and literary history, several examples of what had been successful literary hoaxes for a long time. | | | He had dropped hints to me towards the end of the 1914-18 war, that the Stratfordian authorship was impossible to hold, and that he was setting about deliberately to find, if possible, the true author. |
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| | WILL THE REAL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PLEASE STAND UP |
| | What problems exist between the authorship of the Shakespearean poems and plays? | | | The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook - Provides direct and comprehensive access to evidence and arguments that Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, should be related to the Shakespeare authorship controversy. | | | You have examined the Shakespeare authorship controversy based on evidence, and as a group your rational, emotional or ethical response is what you cling to. |
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http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webshakespera.html
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| | The Birth of Merlin |
| | But although editor Joanna Udall may wish to leave a slight possibility open as to authorship, she admits that The Birth of Merlin contains few to none of the key Shakespearean elements: | | | Among the distinctive features which could be said to be the hall-marks of Shakespearean drama are the distinctive use of significant imagery, felicity of expression, thematic coherence, economy of structure, a questioning and inventive approach to source material, and a persistent reassessment of the commonplace. | | | There is not a single poetic passage in The Birth of Merlin, which will justify for an instant the hypothesis of Shakespeare's authorship. |
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| | SU [Library] |
| | The Shakespeare Question - the main arguments in the long-standing question of Shakespearean authorship. | | | An Authorship Analysis: Francis Bacon as Shake-speare - presents scholarly evidence about the authorship question. | | | Shakespeare Illustrated - good quality reproductions of 18th and 19th century art depicting Shakespearean performances and subjects. |
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http://www.salisbury.edu/library/english/Shakespeare.htm
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| | The Authorship Debate - Theories on Shakespearean Authorship | | | The authorship of Shakespeare's plays poses an intriguing mystery which many have tried to solve. | | | Throughout the year, look for us to expand and improve our offerings on Shakespearean related sites in general, and Hamlet and Taming of the Shrew in particular. |
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| | The University Concourse: Send an Article |
| | The 'Stratford man' and the Shakespearean canon: no match at all Kathleen van Schaijik I'm guessing that some readers might be off-put by the seeming pointlessness of our carrying on the Shakespearean authorship debate in the Concourse. | | | The final point against the examining the authorship question, also raised by Joanna Bratten, is that the whole discussion is pretty much moot, since we will never know the truth of the matter. | | | But not a single item has been proved to have been written later than 1604 (the year Oxford died.) Some things seem to have been written so early as to make the authorship of Shakspere highly implausible. |
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| | Subject: SHK 1.0122 Shakespearean Spinoffs: Humor on the Heath? | | | Subject: SHK 5.0745 Re: LISTSERV Problem (Back in Business) Subject: SHK 5.0746 Re: MV Characters; Habits of Mind; EXTRACT/MAIL Subject: SHK 5.0747 Authorship Subject: SHK 5.0746 Re: Bianca and More Subject: SHK 5.0748 Re: Sonnet 114, Fire Subject: SHK 5.0749 Re: Scholars, Actors, Readers, Authors. | | | Subject: SHK 1.0130 Rare Books Bitnet Seminar Subject: SHK 1.0131 Weeping Deer (Continued) Subject: SHK 1.0132 Shakespearean Gardens / Bibliography Subject: SHK 1.0133 Weeping Deer (Continued) Subject: SHK 1.0134 Shakespearean Gardens Subject: SHK 1.0135 More Very Sad Deer Subject: SHK 1.0136 Season's Silence... |
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| | §5. "Edward III". X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 |
| | If the claim for Shakespearean authorship is to be put forward at all, it must be based upon those elements of Shakespeare& genius which ever elude the grasp of the most skilful plagiarist—the creation of character, the reaching after dramatic effect and the impalpable spirit of dramatic art. | | | A prime objection which has been brought against the Shakespearean authorship of these scenes is that they break in upon the action of the main story in a way that Shakespeare would not have tolerated. | | | If, however, the double plot of the play furnishes, in itself, no reason for assuming double authorship, that assumption must, nevertheless, be made on other and more substantial grounds. |
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| | frontline: the shakespeare mystery: William Murphy Article PBS |
| | When the reader finishes a hundred pages of Delia Bacon or Ignatius Donnelly or Alden Brooks or the Ogburns he is so bedazzled by the outpouring of verbal argumentation that he may forget that none of the logicians has offered any sensible refutation of the positive documentary evidence of Shakespearean authorship. | | | Miss Bacon promised a second volume dealing with the "historical" proof of non-Shakespearean authorship; the first (and, as it proved, the only) confined itself to an analysis of the plays designed to show that there was a "hidden undercurrent of philosophy" in the works of both Bacon and Shakespeare. | | | Yet it is common knowledge that after Delia Bacon published her vague notions about authorship in 1856 defenders of her unorthodox views and creators of others multiplied like rabbits, and any reader of the modern newspaper knows that the tribe increases every year. |
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http://pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/reactions/murphyarticle.html
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| | frontline: the shakespeare mystery: William Murphy Article PBS |
| | Miss Bacon promised a second volume dealing with the "historical" proof of non-Shakespearean authorship; the first (and, as it proved, the only) confined itself to an analysis of the plays designed to show that there was a "hidden undercurrent of philosophy" in the works of both Bacon and Shakespeare. | | | The philosophy and the secret of authorship were concealed in an allegory and cipher which she intended to explain later. | | | The first is to deny his authorship negatively: we are told that a man capable of writing such great plays would have left behind a treasure-house of information about himself, or that his contemporaries would have done so. |
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| | Shakespearean authorship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term Shakespearean authorship normally refers to the conspiracy theory propounded by these doubters; it should be distinguished from the less contentious academic debates about what exactly Shakespeare wrote in the collaborative world of the Elizabethan theatre. | | | Around one hundred and fifty years after William Shakespeare's death in 1616, doubts began to be expressed by some about the authorship of the plays and poetry attributed to him. | | | There are no comments about veiled authorship in Ben Jonson's private diaries of the time, nor in any of the known gossip reports of the time or the succeeding few decades (e.g. |
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