The Shakespeare Mystery

Exploring Shakespeare On the Web


SHAKESPEARE HOME PAGE
An invaluable resource. This M.I.T.-sponsored site offers the full text of the complete works of Shakespeare (tragedies, histories, comedies, poetry). It includes:
The opportunity to search the texts using key words (search either all texts or, particular ones).
A chronological listing of plays based on the scholarship of Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, preparers of the Oxford edition of the complete works (1988).
A compilation of Bartlett's familiar Shakespearean quotations.
An alphabetized listing of the plays.
A discussion area.


THE SHAKESPEARE FELLOWSHIP
Here's a web site which seeks to "bring the Shakespeare authorship debate to a worldwide audience" and positions itself in the Oxfordian camp. It offers news and discussion sections and collects a rich range of material including the full text of J. Thomas Looney's "Shakespeare" Identified," and a chapter from Roger Stritmatter's recent dissertation on how repeated ideas in Shakespeare's biblical references correspond to verses marked in the de Vere Bible.


SHAKESPEARE OXFORD SOCIETY HOME PAGE
While this web site advances the cause of the Oxfordian theory of the Shakespeare authorship, it is a resource for all.
Its home page offers a rich network of Internet resources on Shakespeare and the authorship question: reading lists of Oxfordian works, Stratfordian works, and works in response to the authorship debate; links to interesting sites about Shakespeare; discussion groups, a list of films based on Shakespeare, and more.


SHAKESPEARE'S COMPLETE WORKS FROM THE INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
An additional site for on-line access to the complete works.

The Debate Continues

Three Debates/Mock Trials Examine the transcript of a mock trial sponsored by the Boston Bar Association in 1993; the transcript of a moot court convened in Washington D.C. in 1987 before three U.S. Supreme Court Justices; and the proceedings of a national satellite conference in 1992 on the Shakespeare vs. De Vere authorship debate.

Selected Readings Here are seven full text articles on the authorship controversy.

Timeline of Doubt The Shakespeare Oxford Society has compiled this history of the Shakespeare authorship question, beginning with how the question first surfaced in 1728.

Shakespeare Reading List

"An Annotated Reading List from Shakespeare: Who Was He?" by Richard F. Whalen

This selected bibliography includes a good range of works--Oxfordian, Stratfordian, Anti-Stratfordian, and Stratfordian works in response to the authorship debate.