EPISODE 109 | What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate
Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current vice president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) and incoming president, actor, director and Shakespeare scholar 
William Shakespeare wrote at least 36 plays, 154 sonnets, two narrative poems and a few shorter poems - more than 884,000 words total, more than 1700 of which he invented. But just who was this guy? Was he really "the Man from Stratford", or merely a pen name for... well someone else?
We look at some of the more popular Anti-Stratfordian theories and also look at why some people seem hell bent on proving that someone else, anyone else, actually wrote all that stuff.
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SECTIONS

03:02 - Upstart Crow - No evidence of his education, the First Folio, not much biographical evidence, a common hand, Bardathon
12:28 - The Ireland Shakespeare Forgeries - Compiling the First Folio, Vortigern and Rowena gets most of a performance
19:13 - The Baconian Theory - Bardolotry, Hart's The Romance of Yachting, Robert W. Jameson's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?", James Wilmot makes a bonfire
24:19 - Delia Bacon goes for the Rutland Theory, then the Groupists Theory, then all in on Bacon, travels to England, gets into codes and ciphers, loses her mind, inspires the New Historicists and cultural poetics; William Henry Smith and Nathaniel Homes kick off the Baconist Theory
30:11 - Baconist Orville Ward Owen builds a machine to find "proof", the first Mock Trial (1892-93)
33:17 - The Derbyite Theory & the Marlovian Theory - Classism, partnership with Marlowe, death and pseudonyms 
39:57 - The Rutlandite Theory & More - More classism, Baconists still persist, more expeditions from Owen, schoolteacher Elizabeth Wells Gallup gets into codes, Stylometrics, the Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic
44:31 - The Oxfordian Theory - John Thomas Looney fingers Edward de Vere based on spurious logic, lots jump on this bandwagon, geography in Shakespeare, "the coast of Bohemia", the media focuses on "reasonable doubt" over evidence, how plays were written back then, evidence gets lost in time
50:18 - A Single Hand - Though there is some reasonable doubt, Shakespeare probably wrote Shakespeare; Applied Shakespeare, humanity owns him, Shakespeare as a force for good (PTSD therapy, in prisons, etc.)


Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

Shakespeare Was Shakespeare by Isaac Butler on Slate
Revisited Myth # 68: Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare on History Myths Debunked
The Shakespeare Index on TheatreHistory.org
20 words and phrases you didn’t know Shakespeare invented
Shakespeare's Words
Shakespeare's Phrases
Bard-a-thon at Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre
Ian McKellen performs Sir Thomas More, Act II, Scene 4 video
"The Strangers' Case" Speech from Sir Thomas More with various speakers and annotations
Professor Sir Stanley Wells
Peter Holland, McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at University of Notre Dame
James Shapiro, playwright and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Stephen Greenblatt, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University
The Shakespeare First Folio
Vortigern and Rowena text
The Confessions of William-Henry Ireland on WikiSource
William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries on Hoaxes.org
Bardolotry on Wikipedia
James Wilmot and Shakespeare's Authorship
Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy 
The Doctor Who Designed a Cipher Wheel to Decode Shakespeare
Theories of identity – the alleged Shakespeare mystery 
Marlowe as Shakespeare
The Controversy of Shakespeare and Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe Has Officially Been Credited as Co-Author of 3 Shakespeare Plays
Born with Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams webpage
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland on ShakespeareAuthorship.com
Shakespeare by the Numbers: What Stylometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us
The Claremont Shakespeare Clinic
Computer Reads Shakespeare, Dismisses Authorship Candidate
The Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic: How Severe Are the Problems?
The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down
The Great Fire of London
Finding Shakespeare - Skeptoid podcast
What Shakespeare can teach us about conspiracy theories today
How Shakespeare describes post-traumatic stress disorder
In Shakespeare, veterans find a “tower of strength”
Shakespeare and Possibility, Part 1: Shakespeare in Prisons video
Shakespeare in Prisons
Shakespeare Theater Association
Prague Shakespeare Company (Shakespeare Summer Intensive (SSI)

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