The Book and the Background

• Why is there an authorship question?
• What books did the Vautrolliers and Richard Field really print?
• How many books a year did Elizabethan printers print?
• Web site on authorship associated with the PBS Frontline production
• Web-based presentation, "The Shakespeare Skeptics' Hall of Fame"
• Mark Alexander's PowerPoint presentation on the authorship question at this page
• A problem with the authorship question is perhaps not so much a problem as it seems: Dating the plays
• A cautionary tale: Don Foster's elegy was once authoritatively considered to be by Shakespeare. Foster, who pioneered the field of literary forensics, was still led astray.
• Don Foster had a poem; I have one too. What about "The Paine of Pleasure"? Here it is: the original version, a modern edited version, and an article I wrote about it for The Oxfordian. (I'm a research dweeb too.) It is available in both HTML and PDF versions.

Authorship links pages (most also have general links)

• Google's list of Oxfordian sites
• Mark Alexander's Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook (many e-texts of Elizabethan sources)
• Nina Green's Oxford Authorship Site
• Shakespeare Fellowship Links page, which has links to most of the other large authorship sites, both Stratfordian and other
• Links from Stephen Roth's site on his Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country
• Prof. Alan Nelson's enormous anti-Oxford site. Whatever one feels about the authorship question, Nelson does his homework well.

Other general links on Shakespeare and the Renaissance are on the Links page