D. Bacon on, 1;
The Isle of Dogs, 1;
and King’s Men, 1;
and masques, 1;
printed editions, 1;
settings, 1;
and the Sonnets, 1;
as Sonnets’ rival poet, 1;
on Volpone, 1;
works’ erudition, 1;
on WS, 1, 2, 3;
and WS’s death, 1
Josephus, 1
The Jubilee (Garrick), 1
Julius Caesar: D. Bacon’s studies, 1, 2; dating, 1;
forged MS, 1;
Harris on, 1
Kathman, David, 1
Keats, John, 1, 2
Keep the Widow Waking (Dekker, Webster, Ford and Rowley), 1
Keller, Helen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Kemble, Fanny, 1
Kemble, John Philip, 1
Kemp, Will, 1, 2, 3
Kermode, Frank, 1, 2
King John, 1, 2
King Lear: 1608 quarto, 1; autobiographical readings, 1;
D. Bacon’s studies, 1;
dating, 1, 2;
Fool’s character, 1;
forged MS page, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Freud on, 1, 2, 3;
Looney on, 1;
MS, 1
King’s Men (formerly Chamberlain’s Men): and Jonson, 1;
and Stratford, 1;
theatres used by, 1, 2;
and WS, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kittredge, George Lyman, 1
Knight, Charles, 1, 2
Kreeger, David Lloyd, 1, 2
Kyd, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lake, David, 1
Lamb, Charles and Mary, 1
Lapham, Lewis H., 1
Laporte, Charles, 1
Lardner, James, 1
Lawson, Mark, 1
The Learned Pig, 1
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 1
Lee, Sidney, 1, 2, 3
Lefranc, Abel, 1
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1, 2
Leonardo da Vinci, 1
Licia, or Poems of Love (Fletcher), 1
Lintott, Bernard, 1
Lobb, John, 1
The Lodger (Nicholl), 1
The London Prodigal, 1
Looney, John Thomas, 1; background, 1;
disappointment at slow spread of Oxfordian theories, 1;
edition of Oxford’s poetry, 1;
Freud on, 1, 2;
on Oxford as author of other contemporaries’ poetry, 1;
Oxfordian theories, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on Prince Tudor theories, 1;
US edition of ‘Shakespeare’ Identified, 1
Love’s Labour’s Lost, 1, 2
Love’s Labour’s Won, 1
Love’s Martyr (contributed volume of poetry), 1
‘Love’s Martyr’ (D. Bacon), 1, 2
Lowin, John, 1
Lucrece, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lyly, John, 1, 2
Lyon, Isabel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mabbe, James, 1, 2
Macbeth: dating, 1, 2; Drury Lane opening-night performance (1794), 1;
eyewitness account of contemporary performance, 1;
Freud on, 1, 2, 3;
Looney on, 1;
MS, 1
McCrea, Jane, 1
McDonald, Ross, 1
Macklin, William, 1
MacWhorter, Alexander, 1, 2, 3
Macy, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Malcolm X, 1
Malone, Edmond: and authorship of individual plays, 1; edition and biography of WS, 1;
and hunt for WS’s papers, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Ireland papers exposed as forgery by, 1;
suppositions made from Sonnets, 1, 2;
on WS’s style, 1
Marble, Manton, 1
Marlowe, Christopher: arguments against Marlovians, 1; authorship of Tamburlaine, 1;
Bacon as, 1;
forged letter from Peelere WS, 1;
Jonson on, 1;
and Kyd, 1;
Marlovian theories, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Oxford as, 1, 2;
as Sonnets’ rival poet, 1;
works’ erudition, 1;
WS as author of his plays, 1
Marshall, William: portraits by, 1
Marston, John, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mary Queen of Scots, 1
Mary Queen of Scots, 1
Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn (Beaumont), 1
masques, 1
Masson, David, 1
Matus, Irving, 1
Measure for Measure, 1, 2
Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1
Melville, Herman, 1
The Merchant of Venice: 1604 performance, 1; dating, 1;
Freud on, 1;
Looney on, 1
Meres, Francis, 1, 2, 3, 4
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1, 2, 3
Meynert, Theodor, 1, 2
Middleton, Thomas: and Children of the Queen’s Revels, 1; co-authorship of Timon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and King’s Men, 1;
settings, 1
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1, 2
Mill, John Stuart, 1
Milton, John, 1, 2
Mister V (film), 1
Moffett, Samuel, 1
Montagne, Renée, 1
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 1
Moore, Peter, 1
Morse, Samuel, 1, 2, 3
Moses, 1
Mucedorus, 1
Much Ado about Nothing, 1
Munday, Anthony, 1, 2
Murdoch, Patrick, 1
Murphy, Arthur, 1
Nashe, Thomas, 1, 2, 3
National Geographic Society, 1
Neilson, William A., 1
Nelson, Alan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Neville, Henry, 1
New York Times, 1, 2, 3
Nicholl, Charles, 1
Nicoll, Alardyce, 1, 2
Niederkorn, William, 1, 2
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1
North, Sir Thomas, 1, 2
Nugent, William, 1
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 1, 2
Ogburn, Charlton, Jr, 1, 2, 3, 4
Oldys, William, 1, 2
Oliver, Lord, 1
Orcutt, William Dana, 1
Orgel, Stephen, 1
Orton, Arthur, 1
Ostler, William, 1
Othello: autobiographical readings, 1, 2; dating, 1, 2;
Freud on, 1;
Looney on, 1;
MS, 1;
performances attended by Twain, 1
Otway, Thomas, 1
Ovid, 1
Owen, Orville Ward, 1, 2, 3; cipher wheel, 1
Oxford, Edward de Vere, Earl of, 1; arguments against Oxfordians, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Ashbourne portrait, 1, 2;
attempts to call up from dead, 1;
as author of other contemporaries’ work, 1;
Broach’s theories, 1;
and ciphers, 1;
court cases, 1;
D. Bacon’s theories, 1;
Freud’s theories, 1, 2, 3;
Geneva Bible, 1;
Internet publicity, 1;
life, 1, 2, 3;
link to possible motive for Cowell forgery, 1;
Looney’s theories, 1, 2, 3, 4;
media coverage, 1, 2;
Ogburn’s resurrection of movement, 1;
other Oxfordians, 1, 2, 3;
overview of Oxfordian arguments, 1;
Prince Tudor theories, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
spelling, 1
Oxford Shakespeare series, 1
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1, 2
Palladia Tamia (Meres), 1, 2
Palgrave, Francis, 1
Palmer, Cecil, 1, 2, 3
Park Theatre, New York, 1, 2
Parker Society, 1
Parnassus plays, 1
Parr, Samuel, 1
Pavier, Thomas, 1
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1, 2
Peele, George: and authorship of Henry the Sixth, 1; Bacon as, 1;
forged letter to Marlowe, 1;
Keller’s thesis on, 1
Percival, James Gates, 1
Percy Society, 1
Pericles: authorship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; dating, 1, 2;
evidence of author’s impresa skills, 1;
Looney on, 1
Peyster, John Watts de, 1
Phillips, Augustine, 1
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 1
Pimpernel Smith (film), 1
plague, 1
Plath, Sylvia, 1
Playfair, John, 1
playscripts, Elizabethan and Jacobean, 1
Plutarch, 1, 2
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 2, 3
Poets’ War, 1
Pope, Alexander, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pope, Thomas, 1
Positivist movement, 1, 2, 3, 4
Potter, Lois, 1
Prescott, Kate, 1, 2
Price, Diana, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 1
The Prince and the Pauper (Twain), 1, 2
Prince Tudor theories, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
printing and publishing, Elizabethan and Jacobean conventions, 1, 2
The Puritan Widow, 1
Puttenham, George, 1
Pythagoras, 1
Quin, Malcolm, 1
Quincey, Thomas de, 1
Quiney, Richard, 1, 2, 3
Quiney, Thomas, 1
Ralegh, Sir Walter, 1, 2
Rank, Otto, 1
Ravenscroft, Edward, 1
Reed, Edwin, 1
Reik, Theodor, 1
Religion of Humanity, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rendall, Gerald H., 1, 2, 3
Richard the Second: authorship, 1; and Essex, 1;
forged MS, 1;
MS, 1;
publishing history, 1;
sources, 1
Richard the Third, 1
Rieu, E. V., 1
Riley, James H., 1
Riverbank Laboratories, 1
Robert, Earl of Leicester, 1
Robert the Earl of Essex, 1
Robertson, J. M., 1
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 1
Rogers, Philip, 1
Romeo and Juliet: autobiographical readings, 1, 2; Drummond’s copy, 1;
internal evidence for WS’s authorship, 1;
Looney on, 1;
Nurse’s character, 1;
publishing history, 1
Romney, George: paintings by, 1, 2
Roscius, 1
Ross, Terry, 1
Roubiliac, Louis François, 1
Rowe, Nicholas, 1, 2
Rowley, William, 1
Rowse, A. L., 1
Rubbo, Michael, 1
Rutland, Roger Manners, fifth Earl of, 1, 2
Rutland, Francis Manners, sixth Earl of, 1
Rylance, Mark, 1, 2
Sachs, Hanns, 1, 2
St Albans, 1
Savage, Richard, 1
Scalia, Antonin, 1
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 1, 2
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1, 2
Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim, 1
Schoenbaum, Samuel: on D. Bacon, 1; illness prevents attendance at Oxfordian moot court, 1;
prolificness, 1;
rejection of autobiographical view of WS’s works, 1;
on sceptics, 1, 2;
TV appearances, 1
Screvin, Thomas, 1
The Second Maid’s Tragedy, 1
Sejanus (Jonson), 1
Selkirk, J. B., 1
Serres, Olivia Wilmott, 1, 2
Seymour, Thomas, 1
Shahan, John M., 1
Shakespeare, Elizabeth (WS’s granddaughter), 1
Shakespeare, Hamnet (WS’s son), 1, 2, 3, 4
Shakespeare, Joan (WS’s sister), 1
Shakespeare, John (WS’s father), 1, 2,
Shakespeare, Judith (WS’s daughter), 1
Shakespeare, Susanna (WS’s daughter), 1, 2, 3
Shakespeare, William (WS): as actor, 1, 2, 3; attempts to call up from dead, 1;
Blackfriars lodgings, 1;
business dealings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
contemporary reputation, 1, 2;
death, 1;
deification, 1, 2, 3;
documents pertaining to life (real and fake), 1, 2, 3, 4;
education, 1;
familiarity to contemporaries, 1;
hyphen in name, 1;
imagination, 1;
legal training, 1, 2;
life: conceptions drawn from works, 1, 2, 3;
life: facts, 1;
‘Lost Years’, 1, 2;
life experience, 1;
marriage and family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
portraits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
reasons for lack of biographical information, 1, 2;
relationship with Elizabeth and James, 1;
signature, 1;
spelling of name, 1;
statues, 1;
Stratford properties, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
theatres used by, 1, 2;
tomb, 1;
vocabulary, 1;
will, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
–AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY: basis in belief in autobiographical nature of literature, 1; candidates for authorship, 1;
evidence for WS, 1, 2;
growing tendency to expect fiction to be autobiographical, 1, 2;
James’s theories, 1;
literary scholarship context, 1, 2, 3;
online discussion groups, 1;
sceptics, 1, 2;
sceptics’ dismissal of evidence, 1;
theological source of arguments, 1, 2, 3;
witness from family and acquaintances, 1, 2
–PRINTED EDITIONS: First Folio (1623), 1, 2, 3; Johnson and Steevens (1778), 1, 2;
Malone (1790), 1;
Oxford edition (1986), 1;
Pavier and Jaggard’s collection (1619), 1;
Third Folio, second impression (1664), 1;
in WS’s lifetime, 1, 2, 3
– WORKS: allusions to contemporary events, 1; audience, 1;
authorship of individual plays, 1;
autobiographical readings, 1, 2, 3;
Blackfriars’ effect on, 1;
characters, 1, 2, 3, 4;
co-authorship, 1, 2;
copyright ownership, 1;
dating, 1, 2;
internal evidence of his authorship, 1;
late style, 1;
lost plays, 1;
music and dance in, 1;
reasons for lack of props and stage business, 1;
reasons for turn to tragicomedy, 1;
settings, 1;
WS speaking own epilogue, 1;
see also individual plays and poems by name;
Sonnets
Shakespeare, William (WS’s nephew), 1
Shakespeare Authorship Coalition website, 1
Shakespeare Authorship Society, 1, 2
Shakespeare Fellowship, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shakespeare in Love (film), 1
Shakespeare Oxford Society, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shakespeare Society (Collier’s), 1
Shakespeare’s Secret (Broach), 1
Shakespeareana Genealogica, 1
Sharp, Thomas, 1
Shylock is Shakespeare (Gross), 1
Sidney, Mary, 1
Sidney, Sir Philip, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Silliman, Benjamin, 1
The Silver Mine, 1
Simmes, Valentine, 1, 2
Simpson, Edward, 1
Sinklo, John, 1, 2
Sir John Oldcastle, 1, 2
Sisson, C. J., 1
1601 (Twain), 1
Skeat, Walter, 1
Skura, Meredith, 1
Slater, Gilbert, 1
Sly, William, 1, 2
Smith, Benjamin: engravings by, 1
Smith, Edith Jane Durning, 1
Smith, R. A., 1
Smith, Sid, 1
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nbsp; Smith, William, 1
Sobran, Joseph, 1
Something Like a House (Smith), 1
Sonnets: 1609 edition, 1; autobiographical readings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Freud on, 1;
publishing history, 1;
writing of, 1
Sonnet 1, 2
Sonnet 1, 2
Sonnet 1, 2, 3
Sonnet 1, 2
Sonnet 1, 2
Sophocles, 1, 2
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of: as author of WS’s plays, 1; dedicatory letters to, 1;
and Essex rebellion, 1;
forged correspondence with WS, 1, 2, 3;
letter mentioning WS, 1;
and Prince Tudor theories, 1, 2, 3, 4
Spedding, James, 1
Spenser, Edmund: author’s persona, 1;
Bacon as, 1;
contemporaries on, 1, 2;
D. Bacon’s theories, 1;
mentioned in D. Bacon’s play, 1;
Oxford as, 1, 2;
as Sonnets’ rival poet, 1;
WS’s supposed copy of book by, 1
Steevens, George: and conspiracy theories, 1; edition of WS’s plays, 1, 2;
forges letter from Peele to Marlowe, 1;
and Ireland papers, 1;
and Malone, 1;
and the Sonnets, 1
Stevens, John Paul, 1, 2, 3
Stonley, Richard, 1
Stow, John, 1
Strachey, Lytton, 1, 2, 3, 4
Stratford-upon-Avon: attitude to theatre, 1; Britannia on, 1;
Garrick’s WS festival (1769), 1;
Guildhall schoolroom, 1, 2;
New Place, 1, 2, 3;
other property belonging to WS, 1, 2;
prominent people from, 1;
WS’s birthplace, 1
Strauss, David Friedrich, 1
Stritmatter, Roger, 1, 2
Sullivan, Anne, 1, 2, 3
Swift, Jonathan, 1
The Taming of the Shrew, 1, 2
Taylor, Gary, 1, 2, 3, 4
The Tempest: arguments for Bacon’s authorship, 1, 2; authorship, 1;
autobiographical readings, 1, 2, 3;
D. Bacon’s studies, 1;
dating, 1, 2;
James’s essay, 1, 2;
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