The Shakespeare controversy : an analysis of the authorship theories / Warren Hope and Kim Holston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Warren, 1944-

Contributor:

Holston, Kim R., 1948-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]

Summary:

"The history of the Shakespeare controversy is presented in this revised edition of the 1992 work, with new information and additional chapters. Part I documents and assesses the important theories on the authorship question. Part II is an annotated bibliography, arranged chronologically, of the works that deal with the controversy from its vague beginnings to the present"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A founding mother : Delia Bacon

Shakespeare on the Mississippi : Whitman, O'Connor, and Twain

The great cryptogrammatist : Ignatius Donnelly

The birthplace : Joseph Skipsey and Henry James

An agnostic and two rebels : Greenwood, Samuel Butler, and Frank Harris

Many candidates : Marlowe, Rutland, Derby, and so on

"Shakespeare" identified : J. Thomas Looney

Professionals, amateurs, and the question of authority

The growing Oxfordian challenge

The Stratfordian response

The rest is scholarship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786439171

0786439173

OCLC:

318292664