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Need a speaker?
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Your group or forum can schedule presentations by the
author on the following topics:
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"New Evidence of a Shakespeare Authorship Problem"
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For audiences with a general
interest in the subject, the author offers an overview of
the questions and issues raised in her book, Shakespeare's
Unorthodox Biography.
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"Shakespeare and Documentary Evidence"
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This three-part lecture series (with slides) is ideal for
anyone interested in Shakespeare, critical thinking,
literature, history, and specifically Shakespeare's
authorship. Is The Shakespeare Authorship Question a
crackpot issue — or a real problem that the orthodox
would prefer to sweep under the carpet? This analysis of
literary evidence for Elizabethan writers is both
entertaining and instructive, and is bound to make you
more skeptical. You'll be surprised to learn that both
sides of the Shakespeare authorship issue have advanced
bad arguments or fiddled with the evidence. Which side
has made the better case? These lectures encourage you to
decide for yourself. Whether you are considering
Shakespeare's authorship or some other controversial
topic, these lectures can help you to question what the
authorities tell you — and to test the evidence
yourself. Running times: approximately 40-50 minutes each.
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Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Primary Evidence for a Literary
Biography
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Secondary Sources: Can you trust
them?
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Shakespeare and his
Contemporaries:
A Comparative Investigation.
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What is primary evidence? The
author examines types of documentation that underpin
literary biographies. She investigates primary evidence
for Shakespeare and several of his contemporaries.
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The author questions the experts.
She analyzes specific issues as reported by Shakespearean
scholars as well as those who have challenged the
traditional biography, to determine whether the
conclusions are supported by the primary evidence.
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Is
Shakespeare the odd man out? The author rounds up primary
evidence for Shakespeare, and two dozen of his
contemporaries, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe,
and Edmund Spenser. She compares the quality of evidence
used to support each of the respective literary
biographies, and her results are surprising.
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