Directory of Stratfordians Resources

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This category is for sites arguing that Shakespeare is indeed the author of the works attributed to him.

Resources in This Category

• Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays

  http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/shake_did_write_plays.html
  Evidence that suggests Shakespeare did write the plays attributed to him.

• Authorship Page

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/authorsh.html
  Evidence in favor of Shakespeare; background on Edward de Vere and others who are part of the authorship debate.

• Debunketh Shakespeare?

  http://members.shaw.ca/chazzpeppin/shakespeare.html
  Brief essay favoring Stratford.

• Eight Witnesses to Shakespeare

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/witness.html
  Private notes, book-lists, and title-page inscriptions that evince Shakespeare's reputation as the author of his works.

• Folger Shakespeare Library

  http://www.folger.edu/
  Covering the library, visitor information, exhibitions, museum shop, teaching Shakespeare theatre productions, poetry, the Folger Consort, PEN/Faulkner readings and lectures.

• George Buc: The Man Who Knew Shakespeare

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/BUC/discuss.html
  Evidence in favor of Shakespeare.

• History Of William Shakespeare

  http://www.angelfire.com/journal/WillShakespeare/WilliamShakespeare10.html
  Two short sketches: background on authorship; a biography.

• Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/snl.html
  Thomas A. Pendleton's review of the Alan H. Nelson book, which argues in favor of Shakespeare's authorship.

• Much Ado About Nothing?

  http://www.ericchrist.com/non-fiction/shakespeare.htm
  Examining the Shakespeare authorship debate.

• PBS and Rubbo on Marlowe as Shakespeare: A Reply

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/pbs.html
  Commentary on the Diana Price appearance in the program.

• Querulous Notes (March 2002)

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id288_march_16_2002.htm
  The first in an occasional series analyzing a new anti-Stratfordian tract.

• Querulous Notes: Defense of Stratfordianism

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id317_april_27_2002.htm
  Refutes evidence presented in Joseph Sobran's annual column.

• Querulous Notes: New Shakespeare Records 2003

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id317_january_5_2003.htm
  An update circa August 2003.

• Querulous Notes: Shakespeare and Roman Catholicism

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id459_february_15_2004.htm
  Anti-Stratfordian Peter W. Dickson obtains 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.

• Querulous Notes: The Pro-Stratfordian Position

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id317_october_10_2002.htm
  Refutation of some recent anti-Stratfordian works.

• Shakespeare and Literacy

  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/literacy.html
  Commentary on literacy amongst actors during Shakespeare's time, and whether it might be used as a determining factor in the authorship debate.

• Shakespeare Authorship

  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/
  This page is dedicated to the proposition that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Anti-Oxfordian arguments from a traditional point of view.

• Shakespeare of Stratford, Un Bourgeios Gentilhomme?

  http://stromata.tripod.com/id288_march_11_2002.htm
  Analyzes the anti-Stratfordian position that William Shakespeare was too prosperous, contented and bourgeois a figure ever to have written poems like Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

• Shakespeare Scholars Discuss Whether the Bard was a Beard

  http://news.stanford.edu/news/2002/january9/shakespeare-a.html
  Stanford Report, January 9, 2002.

• Shakespearean Authorship

  http://www.fact-index.com/s/sh/shakespearean_authorship.html
  A pro-Stratfordian position.

• The Case for Shakespeare - 91.10

  http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/shakes/matus.htm
  Stratfordian article by Irvin Matus, from Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1991.

• Who actually wrote Shakespeare?

  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/michell.html
  A pro-Stratfordian essay.

• Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

  http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/hidncode.htm
  Presents common arguments for and against Shakespeare's authorship, concluding that Shakespeare wrote the plays.

• Why I Reject the Shakespearean Heresies

  http://www.theuniversityconcourse.com/article/1847.html
  by Robert Englert.

 

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