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	Shakespearean authorship
		The conventional belief, generally accepted from Shakespeare's death until the late 19th century, is that William Shakespeare, the author of the plays, is the same man as one William Shakespere, recorded as living in Stratford-upon-Avon.
		In 1856, William Henry Smith put forth the claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon, a major scientist, a courtier, a diplomat, an essayist, a historian and a successful politician, who served as Solicitor General (1607), Attorney General (1613) and Lord Chancellor (1618).
		A sign of the great interest taken in the authorship question even in today's era where Shakespeare's plays must compete with a vast array of other media for attention is the tremendous press attention paid to this discovery, which made the New York Times and other headlines.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shakespearean_authorship.html (2543 words)

	§1. Classification of extant Plays. X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare. Vol. 5. The Drama ...
		THE foundations of the Shakespearean apocrypha were laid while the dramatist was still alive, when a number of plays, in the composition of most of which he could have had no hand, were entered upon the Stationers’ register as his, or were published with his name or initials on the title-page.
		But the question of Shakespearean authorship is not the only point of interest presented by the doubtful plays.
		So varied in character are the works which go to form the Shakespearean apocrypha, that they may fairly be said to furnish us with an epitome of the Elizabethan drama during the period of its greatest achievement.
	www.bartleby.com /215/1001.html (925 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume 4, Number 1, 1999: Emma Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Studies of Shakespeare and authorship have tended to lag behind theoretical discussions of the role of the author in the text, and the introduction to Pericles, and to King Edward III, could stand as usefully under-theorised complements for students reading Barthes' 'The Death of the Author' and Foucault's 'What is an author?'.
		Authorship does make a difference, and the fact that its editor Gregori Melchiori is not claiming sole Shakespearean authorship for King Edward III matters less than the play's appearance in the standard uniform of the Cambridge Shakespearean canon.
		The strength of the discussion of authorship, however, is its interleaving with the play's manipulation of its sources in Holinshed and Froissart: Melchiori thus establishes a model of collaboration which extends fruitfully beyond the debates about who wrote which scene, into something more like the extensive web of allusions and influences characterised as intertextuality.
	www.hull.ac.uk /renforum/v4no1/smith.htm (1238 words)

	§5. "Edward III". X. Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, Part One. ...
		But, in the absence of all external authority, it would be unsafe to claim the episode for Shakespeare upon such evidence as this alone; and the same may be said for the resemblances of idea, imagery and cadence which many passages in these love scenes bear to passages in his canonical works.
		If the claim for Shakespearean authorship is to be put forward at all, it must be based upon those elements of Shakespeare’s genius which ever elude the grasp of the most skilful plagiarist—the creation of character, the reaching after dramatic effect and the impalpable spirit of dramatic art.
		A prime objection which has been brought against the Shakespearean authorship of these scenes is that they break in upon the action of the main story in a way that Shakespeare would not have tolerated.
	www.bartleby.com /215/1005.html (1277 words)

	fletchorton
		For the most part, the accepted mainstream of Shakespearean textual scholarship has been unaffected by the results of any statistical authorship study, although a number of articles in the area have been published in journals devoted to computer applications in the humanities.
		A statistical procedure known as discriminant analysis was used with this data, and both the data and procedure were thoroughly evaluated on samples of known authorship to determine the accuracy and limitations of this method for determining authorship.
		are the results for samples of known authorship that showed that such a conclusion was correct for 96.5 percent of the 365 scenes in the control set and for 85.2 percent of the scenes in the test set (94.8 percent overall).
	www.geocities.com /katacheson/fletcherhorton.html (8423 words)

	CMC Magazine Summer 2004, News and Events, Claremont McKenna College
		If the authorship question could be decided by objective evidence, the clinic's tests should have settled it—not by proving directly that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but by disproving every available, testable, alternative.
		On the other hand, after 17 years of cutting-edge authorship research, neither Professor Valenza nor I subscribe at all to the conventional, lit-department notion that authorship questions are boring, uninteresting, passé, or suitable only for amateurs.
		If authorship matters, then computer evidence like ours matters, too, because it can actually settle some serious questions which conventional evidence has left in doubt, or raise new questions where the evidence ought to be in doubt, but isn't.
	www.claremontmckenna.edu /news/cmcmagazine/2004summer/currents (1460 words)

	Shakespearean authorship - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As early as the eighteenth century doubts about Shakespeare's authorship were expressed, but it was in the nineteenth century, at the height of bardolatry, that the "authorship question" was popularised.
		William Henry Smith put forth, in 1856, the first claim that the author of Shakespeare's plays was Sir Francis Bacon, a major scientist, a courtier, a diplomat, an essayist, a historian, and a successful politician, who served as Solicitor General (1607), Attorney General (1613), and Lord Chancellor (1618).
		The debate, such as it is, seems far from being resolved, with standard scholarship noting that the theories of ghost authorship began to develop two centuries or more after Shakespeare's death and anti-Stratfordians claiming that there is evidence of a "cover-up" during the lifetime of the author.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Shakespearean_authorship (1854 words)

	Arden of Feversham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In spite of much able criticism written in support of Shakespearean authorship in the last century, this view is now discredited.
		Boas, as editor of Kyd's works, holds that the author was an imitator of Kyd, rather than Kyd himself, as Fleay had argued many years earlier.
		Sykes's impressionistic method of determining authorship has been shown to be fallacious in similar cases.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/arden.html (578 words)

	Shakespeare Festival - Clemson University
		Shakespearean burlesque was integral to the reconfiguring of canons of cultural stratification and Shakespearean authority in the nineteenth century, segregating elements traditionally associated with popular stage performance–topicality, linguistic indecorum, social heterogeneity, a participatory relationship between audience and performer, ideological unruliness or irreverence for authority–from "proper" Shakespeare.
		However, this is not to argue that the subgenre was homogenous in its engagement with questions of authority or that the the minstrel show was in some way decisive in recalibrating Shakespeare's cultural register in the period.
		I place this controversy in the context of American notions of authorship and art that were both peculiar and particular to this era.
	www.clemson.edu /caah/Shakespr/colloquiumabstracts.php (774 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - The Great Debate
		There are enough conspiracy theories out there regarding the works of Shakespeare (or attributed to Shakespeare, if you prefer) that entire careers have been built upon positing alternate candidates for the true authorship of the works.
		The Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable is dedicated to the study of the Elizabethan theatre, the social and political life of the Elizabethan period, and open-minded exploration of the authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
		The goals of the Fellowship include bringing the Shakespeare authorship debate to a world-wide audience via the Internet and stimulating a wide-ranging dialogue on the relevance of Shakespeare to the 21st century.
	www.bardweb.net /debates.html (944 words)

	Shakespearean authorship biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The belief of conventional scholarship remains that William Shakespeare, the author of the plays, is the same man as one William Shakespere recorded as living in Stratford-upon-Avon; the alternative author theories are not taken seriously.
		There is, however, ongoing serious academic work to ascertain the authorship of plays and poems of the time, both those attributed to Shakespeare and others.
		The conventional view is that Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564.
	www.biography.ms /Shakespearean_authorship.html (2922 words)

	Wikinfo \| William Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He also wrote 154 sonnets and several major poems, some of which are considered to be the most brilliant pieces of English literature ever written, because of Shakespeare's ability to rise beyond the narrative and describe the innermost and the most profound aspects of the human nature.
		Some of the most famous examples of his ability can be found in quotations from Shakespearean plays.
		He is believed to have written most of his works between 1585-1610, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are not accurately known.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=William_Shakespeare (1034 words)

	Jessica Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, evidence does exist to support at least two theories about the Shakespearean authorship: one that the man from Stratford wrote the works, the other that Edward de Vere the Earl of Oxford was the author.
		Though the evidence for Oxford as the author of the Shakespearean canon is impressive, the lowly man from Stratford remains the true Bard.
		Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford was first nominated as a candidate for the Shakespearean authorship in 1920 by J. Thomas Looney (Niederkorn).
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/s/jsf134/refinal.htm (1325 words)

	Shakespearean authorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Orthodox scholars also argue that the poems' timing, having originally been published after a period when theatres had been closed by an outbreak of the plague, is also more consistent with composition by a professional writer looking for an alternate source of income than a rich dilettante coincidentally during a theatre closing.
		There are no direct comments about veiled authorship in Ben Jonson's private Diaries of the time, nor in any of the known gossip reports of the time or the succeeding few decades (''e.g.'', Aubrey's Lives or Pepys's Diary).
		Within academic circles, the authorship question is still largely scorned and ignored, although the establishment of the Authorship Studies Conference at Concordia University has led to increased investigation of the claims for the Earl of Oxford's authorship of the Shakespearean canon within academic circles.
	shakespearean-authorship.iqnaut.net (3401 words)

	Shakespeare in American Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most heated topic in Shakespearean studies is the identity of the man who wrote the plays we attribute to a “William Shakespeare.”; Indeed, there is no one of Shakespeare’s literary stature who remains as anonymous as he; this is one of history’s most fascinating whodunits.
		The principal problem in the authorship debate is that once we step outside the Stratfordian perspective, the theories do not work to disprove other theories; the field is one of negative scholarship.
		The question of authorship serves primarily to explain mystery (that which is inexplicable) and to forgive shortcomings.
	www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org /about/was.html (3973 words)

	Shakespeare Authorship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oxfordians claim that these scholars are blinded to the evidence by a vested self-interest in preserving the authorship of "the Stratford Man," and some more extreme Oxfordians claim that there is an active conspiracy among orthodox scholars to suppress pro-Oxford evidence and keep it from the attention of the general public.
		When the Shakespeare Authorship page began 10 years ago, it was the only site on the Internet dedicated to countering claims that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the lion's share of the works professional literary historians have always assigned to Shakespeare.
		Authorship Debate between supporters of Shakespeare and of Oxford.
	shakespeareauthorship.com (6376 words)

	Literature
		The "Catholic Bard" and the Authorship Question: Anti-Stratfordian loon Peter W. Dickson (well known to Shakespearean newsgroup readers) gets 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.
		A new Shakespearean discovery: A contemporary marginal note, hitherto overlooked, suggests that Shakespeare's reputation as an actor was higher than most scholars suppose.
		More stritmatter and a new authorship book: A debate at the pro-Oxfordian Shakespeare Fellowship exposes further blunders by the movement's academic whiz, and two linguists announce a truly outré addition to the authorship "controversy".
	members.tripod.com /stromata/id19.htm (1717 words)

	JOHN THOMAS LOONEY BIO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		John Thomas Looney, who first attributed the authorship of the "Shakespearean" plays and sonnets to Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was a master at an elementary school in Low Fell, Gateshead, County Durham.
		He had dropped hints to me towards the end of the 1914-18 war, that the Stratfordian authorship was impossible to hold, and that he was setting about deliberately to find, if possible, the true author.
		Further when Looney was asked how such a deception as to the authorship could be carried through and maintained, he would expound the peculiar literary atmosphere of the Elizabethan age and then enumerate, from cultural and literary history, several examples of what had been successful literary hoaxes for a long time.
	ruthmiller.com /looney_bio.htm (910 words)

	Shakespearean authorship Summary
		The term Shakespearean authorship normally refers to the conspiracy theory...
		Scholar Diana Price, in her article "Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence," addresses the 400-year-old question of whether Shakespeare truly wrote the many plays and sonnets attributed to him, or whether they were the works of others.
		Shakespearean authorship: This portrait, called the Chandos portrait, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.
	www.bookrags.com /Shakespearean_authorship (183 words)

	Shakespearean authorship in popular British cinema Literature Film Quarterly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But such adaptations, by their very displacement of Shakespeare as author figure, inspire films which strive to make the dramatist present to the audience and which celebrate his authorship.
		Here, Shakespeare is wont to reflect on his literary and theatrical triumphs, and in the course of the film, these memories are interspersed with filmed reproductions of the most famous scenes.3 Although its nostalgic view of the Shakespearean canon precludes the possibility of showing Shakespeare at work, the poet's reminiscences include scenes of writing.
		We approach the text which Shakespeare is composing tremulously, and are further tormented by a background shot of a chest spilling over with Shakespearean manuscripts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_200201/ai_n9057273 (1003 words)

	Book Review: Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?
		And though I was familiar with the authorship question before reading the book, I was still glued to the pages, savoring the bread crumb hints sprinkled throughout, leading us to the Mary Sidney assertion.
		For three years she has been a featured speaker at the Authorship Conference at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and is the founder of The Mary Sidney Society.
		Her life and her writing (the writing that it was safe, at the time, to claim as her own) shaped the English Renaissance, influenced scores of major writers and political figures, and set the stage for theater as we know it today.
	www.noendpress.com /adarrah/sweet_swan_avon.php (816 words)

	Essay Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As John Keats said, "Shakespeare lived a life of allegory: his works are comments on it." We agree; moreover, we are convinced that a preponderance of evidence shows that the life of whom the works are an allegory is that of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
		If you are not already familiar with the authorship question or the case for de Vere's authorship, we urge you to educate yourself on the subject before proceeding further with our essay contest.
		Expository essays will be judged on the basis of originality of thought, insight into the Shakespearean experience, effective and logical development of thesis and other relevant factors such as consideration of contrary evidence, effective use of resources, and elegance of style.
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /essaycontest2004.htm (1568 words)

	SHAKSPER 2001: Re: Shakespearean Authorship Research
		If you were to compare every Shakespearean sonnet to every other (11781 comparisons) by hand I suspect it will take you a great deal of time.
		As several commentators have observed, the style and purpose had more in common with Nashe and with the purse of Chettle than Greene...but because the emphasis is always on Shakespeare's assumed authorship of 3HVI etc the subtleties of the issue are overlooked.
		Yet the authorship of both texts is not uninteresting or unrelated.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/2001/0695.html (1864 words)

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