Part IV: References

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.

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)
• 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
  • Dedication and picture: https://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/firstfolio.html
  • Ben Johnson’s poem
  • Hugh Holland’s poem
  • Leonard Digges’ poem
• 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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