Only 58 hours left to help fund this much-needed project, based on Mark Anderson’s “Shakespeare” By Another Name. My friend Joe Nigg calls this one of my “hobbie-horses,” but it’s an utterly serious issue. Isn’t about time that some sanity was restored to the study of Shakespeare?
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
Chris,<br /><br />what a gold mine of Shakespeare authorship information.<br /><br />Thank you!
Sanity? Yes, by all means: <a href="http://shakespeareauthorship.com/" rel="nofollow">http://shakespeareauthorship.com/</a>
Well, either the author matters or he (or she) does not. The controversy exists because the evidence for the Stratford man is extremely scanty, obscure, inconsistent, and unconvincing, and because the biography of de Vere aligns so well with the character of the works. This all assumes that works, in some fundamental way, reflect the nature and experience of their authors. It is ridiculous to
Joseph,<br /><br />the search for the 'empirical' Shakespeare is an interesting sort of request. It almost makes the historical Shakespeare a battleground between two sorts of believers: the community of Shakespeare readers and students (such as myself)who've carried the canon to this point and this other suppressed (or oppressed?)voice of power and prestige that I'm tempted to
My friend Nigg agrees with you. But my point is not that the man from Stratford is an impossible author, only that there is no evidence whatsoever that he was. Oxford, at least, was well known as a poet and playwright; he was a patron of acting companies; and his biography aligns with much of the special knowledge "Shakespeare" clearly acquired somehow. There are plenty of Shakespeare
Hi Joseph<br /><br />I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with the de Veere-is-Shakespeare thesis. I find the argument both incomprehensible and a bit snobbish. It's always struck me as the "Da Vinci Code" of Shakespeare studies.<br /><br />I can't say I know more about Shakespeare than the obligatory Collected Plays of Shakespeare course I had to take for my