Books, web articles, and online resources pertaining to the Shakespeare Authorship Question (SAQ) that have been referenced in these pages.
Originally published 2014
So many references! So little time. The ones I have relied on, and have found most readable, are listed here.
Contents
Books
Against the Stradforian:
- Is Shakespeare Dead?, by Mark Twain
- Shakespeare Authorship Question: A Crackpot’s View, by Keir Cutler, PhD. (short, succinct, and highly entertaining)
- Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? – Exposing an Industry in Denial, by John Shahan and Alexander Waugh, ed.s
- Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem, by Diana Price
- Who Wrote Shakespeare?, by John Michell (examines multiple candidates)
Favoring de Vere:
- Shakespeare By Another Name: A Biography Of Edward de Vere, Earl Of Oxford, The Man Who Was Shakespeare,
by Mark Anderson - The Man Who Was Shakespeare: A Summary of the Case Unfolded in the Mysterious William Shakespeare : The Myth and the Reality, by Charlton Ogburn
- Edward de Vere the Sevententh Earl of Oxford: The Real Shakespeare, by William Kent
- The Real Shakespeare, by Marilyn Gray
- Four Essays on the Authorship Question, by Mark A’Dair
- The Secret Love Story in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, by Helen Heightsman Gordon
Out of Print (but intriguing enough to be worth examining, when a reasonably-priced copy can be found):
- Seven Shakespeares: A discussion of the evidence for various theories with regard to Shakespeare’s identity, by Gilbert Slater
(His list is a superset of mine, I look forward to obtaining a copy.) - The Murder of the Man Who Was “Shakespeare”, by Calvin Hoffman.
For the Stradforian:
- The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question, by Scott McCrea
- Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? A Lawyer Reviews the Evidence, by Milward Martin.
- Contested Will, by James Shapiro
- William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life, by Samuel Schoenbaum
Other:
- Dictionary of Riddles, by Mark Bryant
- King’s Men (playing company): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King’s_Men_(playing_company)
Web Articles
- Declaration of Reasonable Doubt: https://doubtaboutwill.org/declaration
- Famous Shakespeare Authorship Skeptics:
https://www.shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/famous-shakespeare-authorship-skeptics/ - Overview of the authorship question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question
- Frontline: The Shakespeare Mystery: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/debates/reedarticle.html
- Frontline: The Murder of the Man Who Was “Shakespeare:”: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/muchado/readings/hoffman.html
- Shakespeare’s signatures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question#Education_and_literacy
- Shakespeare’s funerary monument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare’s_funerary_monument#Gallery
- Mark Twain’s summary of everything we know: https://www.shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/is-shakespeare-dead/
- John Ward’s diary: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19280707&id=ee5jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7098,40801
- William Stanley, Earl of Derby as author: https://www.rahul.net/raithel/Derby/
- Apocrypha: https://www.rahul.net/raithel/Derby/apocrypha.html
(Mentions two handwriting samples and displays tombstone inscriptions)
- Apocrypha: https://www.rahul.net/raithel/Derby/apocrypha.html
- Life of William Stanley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley,_6th_Earl_of_Derby
- William Stanley as Poet and Playwright: https://www.rahul.net/raithel/Derby/williamstanley.html
- Life of Edward de Vere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere
- Who was Edward de Vere?: https://www.authorshipstudies.org/articles/devere.pdf
- Edward de Vere as William Shakespeare: https://www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/Europe/england/devere.htm
- Hank Whitmore’s Shakespeare blog: Reason #25 to think that Edward de Vere of Oxford was Shakespeare:
https://hankwhittemore.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/reason-no-25-to-believe-that-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-was-shakespeare-his-grant-of-a-thousand-pounds-per-year/ - Hank Whitmore’s blog on the crown signature, with a picture of one:
https://hankwhittemore.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/edward-de-veres-crown-signature-and-more/ - First Folio (published plays, picture, and poems of praise): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio
- On Three Shakespeare-Related Poems by John Davies:
https://poeticks.com/on-three-shakespeare-related-poems-by-john-davies/ - Analysis of Shakespeare’s epitaph: https://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/epitaph.htm
- Cryptic Crosswords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword
- Tudor Nursery Rhymes: https://www.rammuseum.org.uk/web/data/tudornurseryrhymes_6.pdf
- Evidence that Marlowe’s death was faked: https://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/recknyng.htm
- History of Gray’s Inn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray’s_Inn
- Gray’s Inn: Inn of Court: https://shalt.dmu.ac.uk/locations/grays-inn.html
- The Honorable Society of Gray’s Inn: https://www.graysinn.info/index.php/about-us/history/the-origins
Online Resources
- Registry Of Admissions to Gray’s Inn: https://books.google.com/books?id=8n0_AQAAMAAJ
- The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson: https://books.google.com/books?id=9qy0QtLiIOAC
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: https://shakespeare.mit.edu/
- Protégé Ontlology Tool: https://protege.stanford.edu/
Results of my evaluations:
- Vocabulary Used in Shakespeare’s Works
- WordsInTotal.lst (28,654 words)
- ShakespeareVocabularyAnalysis.zip (downloadable zip file containing processing scripts and text files)
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