Directory of Authorship Resources

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This category is for sites dealing with the possibility that Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's works.

Subcategories

• Apocryphal Plays
• Baconians
• Conspiracy Theories
• Derbyites
• Marlovians
• Oxfordians
• Stratfordians

Resources in This Category

• Is Shakespeare Dead?

  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Mark_Twain/Is_Shakespeare_Dead/
  Mark Twain's article explaining that while he isn't sure who Shakespeare was, he is quite sure who he wasn't.

• Looking for Shakespeare

  http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/shakes/webintr.htm
  Articles from two authors on opposing sides of the debate about the true identity of the author of the works.

• Poets of the Queen

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id85.htm
  Review of the Steven W. May book, The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: Their Poems and Their Contexts.

• Querulous Notes

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id19.htm
  Thoughts, comments and speculations on Shakespearean authorship.

• Querulous Notes (2004)

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id459.htm
  Discussion of The University of Tennessee College of Law, which makes it possible for lawyers to fulfill almost their full continuing legal education obligation by listening to talks about the authorship "debate".

• Querulous Notes: New Shakespeare Records

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id317.htm
  From 2002-2003, background on new Shakespearean discoveries.

• Ron Heisler - Shakespeare and the Ethos of the Rosicrucians

  http://levity.com/alchemy/h_shake.html
  Two Worlds that Converged: Shakespeare and the Ethos of the Rosicrucians. More interesting connections between early English Rosicrucianism, Shakespeare, and various Elizabethans in London.

• Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre

  http://www.authorshipstudies.org/conference/index.cfm
  Primary goal isdetermining who the Shakespeare writer was and exploring why he wrote anonymously and pseudonymously.

• Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable

  http://shakespeareauthorship.org/
  Aiming to offer an opportunity for the independent scholar to be heard by a critical but receptive audience.

• Shakespeare Resource Center: The Great Debate

  http://www.bardweb.net/debates.html
  Thumbnail sketches of various alternative candidates for the authorship role.

• Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

  http://www.shakespeare-authorship.com/
  Author's web site. Describes Diana Price's book "Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New evidence of an Authorship Problem" and her lecture series.

 

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