The Shakespeare authorship question, The authorship question merits open debate not only because of the mismatch between the life and the works which all biographers of Shakespeare are obliged to confront, but also because of the clear evidence for the practice of pseudonymous, proxy, and collaborative authorship among Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists.
Before becoming a librarian, Michael Dudley is addressing a topic which has become ever more acute in spite of the fact that it has been so suppressed, as it surely has. It is the case known as the Shakespeare authorship question.
What is key to understanding
The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. 
Keevak' s subtitle alludes to Why would any rational, open-minded analyst reject Shakespeare's authorship? The actor and shareholder, Shakespeare, whose company was based in London, is clearly identified with William from Stratford. His authorship is attested by a mass of cohering documentary evidence and contemporary witnesses.
The question of identifying the In this video, Professor Jonathan Bate joins Jennifer Reid to discuss the question of who wrote the plays of William Shakespeare. In order to view this embedded content, you will need to accept advertising cookies.
Anced and informative biography. Why is there a Shakespeare Authorship Question? In a cleric from Cambridge, called William Covell, wrote a book in which he revealed that the author of two recently published poems, Venus and Adonis and Lucrece (‘Sweet Shak-speare’) was the courtier-poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
This research suggests there is bias During that spring of , Burford was on a North American tour organized through the Shakespeare Oxford Society, speaking to audiences about the Shakespeare authorship question, and in particular the theory that the true author was his indirect ancestor, Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
Great credit is due Professor Wallace Specifically on authorship-related matters -- in addition to maintaining the Shakespeare Authorship page with Terry Ross -- I wrote a chapter called "The Question of Authorship" for the volume Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide () and the above-mentioned chapter on the Authorship Question for The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (