Shakespeare Controversy

Warren Hope taught in community colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area as an adjunct instructor in English following a career in publishing and public relations. He is the author of books of poems and critical studies of a number of authors including Philip Larkin and George Orwell. Kim R. Holston is a staff librarian in the multimedia department of Chester County Library, Exton, Pennsylvania where he assists the public seeking recommendations on motion pictures, audiobooks, eBooks, and music CDs. He has written or cowritten several books for McFarland.

“recommended”—Choice; “highly recommended”—Popular Culture in Libraries; “well-written and well-researched, this book is not only an entertaining, good read but also a valuable reference work...a worthy, if quite selective, survey of an immense subject”—Shakespeare Oxford Society; “even before being updated, was an invaluable primer on the history of the Shakespearean question. The present update is a must read”—Brief Chronicles; “detailed”—Reference & Research Book News; “helpful and reliable”—James Shapiro, author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      PART1. A Founding Mother: Delia Bacon      2. Shakespeare on the Mississippi: Whitman, O’Connor, and Twain      3. The Great Cryptogrammatist: Ignatius Donnelly      4. The Birthplace: Joseph Skipsey and Henry James      5. An Agnostic and Two Rebels: Greenwood, Samuel Butler, and Frank Harris      6. Many Candidates: Marlowe, Rutland, Derby, and So On      7. “Shakespeare” Identified: J. Thomas Looney      8. Professionals, Amateurs, and the Question of Authority      9. The Growing Oxfordian Challenge      10. The Stratfordian Response      11. The Rest Is Scholarship      Chapter Notes      PARTChronological Annotated Bibliography      Appendices      Associations and Websites      Libraries      Index