Author and Shakespearean Scholar Was Honored as 2006 Oxfordian of the Year
A Question of Will, Lynne Kositsky’s delightful Oxfordian novel for young adults, is now back in print and available here on Amazon in the U.S. for only $5.99. It is also available from most Amazon outlets worldwide. This book is a great way to introduce young people to the Shakespeare authorship question and the Oxfordian theory.
Kositsky is a poet, author, and independent researcher, who co-authored with Professor Roger Stritmatter a major book of Shakespearean scholarship: On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2013).
Her honors include the E.J. Pratt Medal and Award for Poetry and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth. Her other books for young readers include Candles, Rebecca’s Flame, and Claire by Moonlight. Lynne and her husband Michael, a composer, have written a musical version of A Question of Will, which received a staged reading at the SOF Annual Conference in Boston in 2016. Lynne was named the Oxfordian of the Year in 2006.
A Question of Will follows a feisty, fast-talking, teenaged girl, Perin Willoughby (“Willow”), as she travels back in time to the Elizabethan era. Willow is frightened and fascinated by the strange time period in which she lands. She snags an acting job at The Theatre (the first permanent one in England), all the while masquerading as a boy to avoid being thrown out on the street.
Readers will enjoy Willow’s odyssey as she experiences the sights and sounds — and smells! — of the streets of Elizabethan London. She soon finds herself carrying manuscripts from a mysterious nobleman to a drunken actor named Will Shakspere. What’s going on here? The novel will entertain Shakespeare fans young and old.
First published in 2000, A Question of Will went out of print when its original publisher went out of business. The book is now back in print thanks to a new edition published by the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. Copies will be distributed at the 2019 convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, November 21–24, to encourage teachers to use it in their classrooms. This enterprise was funded entirely through an SOF GoFundMe project. You can order A Question of Will here on Amazon for $5.99.
[published Nov. 19, 2019, updated Feb. 2021]
