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In this episode of the Excavating Drama Series, we dive into the validity of Shakespeare Authorship Question (or, Controversy, as some like to call it). Did someone else write Shakespeare's plays? If so, who was it? Why did they hide their identity? Do people really believe all of that? Let's examine the history!
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Alberge, Dayla. “‘Self-satisfied pork butcher‘: Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likeness.” In The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/culture/2...
Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hays, Michael L. “Shakespeare’s Hand Unknown in Sir Thomas More : Thompson, Dawson, and the Futility of the Paleographic Argument.” In Shakespeare Quarterly vol. 67, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 180-203.
Hope, Jonathan. The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays: A Sociology-Linguistic Study. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
McCrea, Scott. The Case of Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.
Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Wood, Michael. Shakespeare. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
5 июл 2024