Adventures in the Authorship Question

Adventures in the Authorship Question

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Back from a Summer Break With Some Exciting News
...for Shakespeare researchers and lovers everywhere
 • Dr R Barber
Debunking the Thomas Nashe 'Upstart Crow' Computer Analysis
Why Stylometry Fails Shakespeare Studies
 • Dr R Barber
The Shakespeare Authorship Question Will Never Be Taken Seriously if You Keep Doing This
But keep doing it if you want to doubters to continue to be mocked and scorned
 • Dr R Barber
A Stratfordian Speaks Up on Hand D
A member of the Oxfraud group wanted to make this comment
 • Dr R Barber
Was "Hand D" an author? Or a scribe?
Did "Shakespeare" (whoever Shakespeare was) write out the Hand D section of the Sir Thomas More manuscript? Two telling details suggest not.
 • Dr R Barber
Are Shakespeare's words in the play Sir Thomas More?
The argument that Hand D was Shakespeare says yes.
 • Dr R Barber
Was Shakespeare Terrible at Spelling?
The Spelling Argument for Hand D of Sir Thomas More Being the Author Shakespeare is as Shaky as the Rest of the Case.
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The Poor Paleographic Arguments Supporting Hand D as Shakespeare's handwriting
In a 3-pronged approach to arguing that Shakespeare had a hand in Sir Thomas More, when this link breaks, the Stratford man is out of the picture.
 • Dr R Barber
We Must Stop Saying Hand D is Shakespeare's Handwriting
The "discovery" of a sample of Shakespeare's handwriting was a response to the authorship question and is a fine example of poor scholarship.
 • Dr R Barber
Adventures in the Authorship Question
Adventures in the Authorship Question
Attempting to pilot the laden tanker of the Shakespeare authorship question into the small and well-policed harbour of respectable academic research.
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