Mark Anderson takes a look at the Stratfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship from the perspective of Thomas Kuhn’s seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He shows convincingly that the Stratfordian theory of authorship is an endangered species in spite of the assertions of its supporters to the contrary.
In this intriguing study, Stephanie Caruana examines the use of the expression “em” and “them” in the Shakespeare Canon. She discovers several curious things about the frequency of occurrence of these terms in the works of Shakespeare and makes a few interesting speculations about what they mean for the authorship question.
In this article, Stephanie Caruana provides an update to the controversy over the authorship of A Funeral Elegy, a topic that has several Stratfordians and Oxfordians on the same page! Donald Foster’s assignation of A Funeral Elegy, to Shakespeare casts another cloud over the use (and misuse) of computerized stylometrics to shore up the dying thesis that a rustic grain dealer and theater entrepreneur wrote the works of the Bard.
