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• Authorship of the Plays - Discussion of authorship; concludes that he was the author, but he may have worked with some other playwrights as was customary in his time.
• Authorship Page - Professor Alan Nelson's site includes all 76 of Oxford's letters and a great deal of other information, together with his ideas on why Oxford could not have been Shakespeare.
• Charlotte Fell Smith: John Dee - Book on the mystic, scientist and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, by Charlotte Fell Smith.
• Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama - Review of Jeffrey Masten's Textual Intercourse, on collaboration in renaissance drama.
• Is Shakespeare Dead? - Mark Twain's article explaining that while he isn't sure who Shakespeare was, he is quite sure who he wasn't.
• Looking for Shakespeare - Articles from two authors on opposing sides of the debate about the true identity of the author of the works.
• Meet the New Bard, by Mark K. Anderson - Article on the controversy caused by the organisation of an Edward de Vere conference on the Oxfordian thesis.
• Reply to Dr. Kathman's Why I'm not an Oxfordian - Previously unpublished reply from the major British researcher Derran Charlton.
• Ron Heisler - Shakespeare and the Ethos of the Rosicrucians - Two Worlds that Converged: Shakespeare and the Ethos of the Rosicrucians. More interesting connections between early English Rosicrucianism, Shakespeare, and various Elizabethans in London.
• Shakespeare and the Framers -- James Boyle - The Search for an Author: constitutional argument and literary analysis, written after great debate in 1988 before three Supreme Court Justices.
• Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable - Aiming to offer an opportunity for the independent scholar to be heard by a critical but receptive audience.
• Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Construction - U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens elaborates on his conclusion that the Earl of Oxford was the true Shakespeare, in this (abridged) version of a 1992 article.
• Shakespeare Page - Authorship Section - Part of Terry Gray's extensive site; this section devoted to the authorship question.
• Shakespeare Resource Center: The Great Debate - Thumbnail sketches of various alternative candidates for the authorship role.
• Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - Author's web site. Describes Diana Price's book "Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography - New evidence of an Authorship Problem" and her lecture series.
• The Case for Shakespeare - 91.10 - Stratfordian article by Irvin Matus, from Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1991.
• The Faces of Queen Elizabeth The First - Collection of portrait images of Queen Elizabeth I, from Luminarium.
• The Holloway Pages: Shakespeare's Stratford Monument - Stratfordian essay on the monument at Stratford. With graphics showing evolution of original monument in drawings and engravings, from man holding a grain or malt sack to present-day writing with a quill pen on a tasseled pillow.
• The Many Shakespeares - Cover Page: May 1998 British Heritage Feature - Article on the history of the controversy surrounding the authorship, from a traditional viewpoint.
• The Philosophy of Shakespeare's Plays Unfolded - A selection or abridgement by Elliott Baker.
• The Shakespeare Identity Problem - An auditor/accountant experienced in investigations examines the merit of the evidence for the authorship of the poems and plays attributed to Shakespeare of Stratford on Avon.
• The Shakespeare Mystery - WGBH's TV program exploring the Shakespeare authorship question. Tapes and transcripts available.
• The True Chronicle Historie - Shakespearean parody of the 'Xena' TV show.
• The Verse Forms of Shakespeare and Oxford - Analysis of Oxford's poetry compared to Shakespeare's by Terry Ross. Ross concludes that Oxford could not have written Shakespeare's poetry.
• Was Shakespeare Italian? - Retired Sicilian professor Martino Iuvara claims that Shakespeare was, in fact, not English at all, but Italian.
• Who Was Shakespeare? - James Hammond's telling comparison of Shacksper of Stratford and Oxford as possible authors.
• Who's Who of Shakepeare's World - Volker Multhopp's Who's Who of the major and minor players in the Shakespeare authorship drama, with birth-death dates and a brief sentence on each.
• William 'Some-Other-Guy' Shakespeare - Debating the question of authorship.

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