Major authorship books review
The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship is pleased to note the publication of a review essay covering two major contributions to authorship studies in a peer-reviewed academic journal. The essay by Lyle Jennings Colombo (Tulane University) discusses Elizabeth Winkler’s Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies and Michael Quinn Dudley’s The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy. It appears in the journal Philosophy and Literature, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal is broadly indexed and abstracted in a number of major scholarly databases, meaning the review will surface in the standard search tools used by humanities scholars. This places the authorship question in front of readers who may otherwise never encounter it.
The review examines how both books move past advocacy for a particular authorship candidate to probe the epistemology of the authorship debate itself: how belief, evidence, and authority shape, and sometimes distort, the pursuit of truth.
Read the review: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2026.a996270
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