The Journal of Scientific Exploration publishes special issue on the Shakespeare authorship question
Researchers present diverse evidence against the historical man from Stratford
2023-08-16
(Press-News.org)
In the issue, ten historians and literary scholars present evidence that casts serious doubts about who actually authored the monumental works credited to William Shakespeare. Suggesting that the name is actually a pseudonym for someone else, this position has been endorsed by numerous artists and scholars over the decades ranging from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to Sigmund Freud, Tyrone Guthrie (founder of Canada’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival) and Mark Rylance founding Artistic Director of the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London.
Tradition credits a businessman from an essentially illiterate family in Stratford-Upon-Avon named “Will Shakspere” as being the author of the Bard’s 37 plays, two major narratives in verse, 154 sonnets, and the man who introduced upwards of 1,700 original words into the English language. However, many historians, literary researchers, and theater professionals over the centuries have been enormously skeptical of the attribution. The debate that has ensued―with several hundred books having now been published on the subject―is at the core of the SAQ.
“Academic honesty and the historical record do matter,” said Don Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Toronto’s York University and Guest Editor of the issue. President of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition (doubtaboutwill.org) Prof. Rubin argues that “from an intellectual standpoint, the real conspiracy theory is why those who hold with the Stratford man as author are so absolutely unwilling to read contradictory research in their own field and to encourage openness about these alternative ideas within academe. Most simply don’t know the depth and detail of the alternative arguments.”
While the JSE does not officially endorse particular claims related to any frontier science topic, its editorial team did agree that there was more than ample evidence in this instance to open up the SAQ to scholars in other fields. Thus, this special JSE issue about what has been termed by many ‘history’s greatest mystery’.
You can freely download JSE’s Special SAQ issue here: https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/issue/view/93
About the Journal of Scientific Exploration:
A publication of the Society for Scientific Exploration, JSE is an open-access, platinum peer-reviewed journal that is devoted to maverick or frontier science topics. It is freely available online at www.journalofscientificexploration.org.
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Professor Don Rubin
Guest Editor Special Issue, Journal of Scientific Exploration
drubin@yorku.ca
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