Shakespearean authorship/Bibliography

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A list of key readings about Shakespearean authorship.
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Orthodox

  • Friedman, William F., and Elizabeth S. Friedman, The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1957). A debunking, by military-intelligence cryptologists, of claims by Ignatius Donnelly and others that the plays contained encrypted messages about authorship and other topics.
  • Kathman, David (2003). "The Question of Authorship". In Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide. Wells, Stanley (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 620 to 632. ISBN 0199245223.
  • Matus, Irvin Leigh (1994-07). Shakespeare, in Fact. Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd). ISBN 0826406246. 
  • McCrea, Scott (2005-01-30). The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 027598527X. 
  • Shapiro, James (2010). Contested Will : who wrote Shakespeare?, 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781416541622. 

anti-Stratfordian

  • James, Brenda; William Rubinstein (2007-10-01). The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. Harper Perennial. ISBN 0061146498.  Advances theory that Sir Henry Neville wrote the plays.
  • Ogburn, Charlton (1992-10). The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & the Reality, 2 Sub. EPM Publications. ISBN 0939009676. 
  • Williams, Robin (2006-03-25). Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?, 1. Peachpit Press. ISBN 0321426401.