Includes bibliographical references (pages [158]-168) and index
On not knowing Shakespeare (and on Shakespeare not knowing): romanticism, the authorship question and English literature / Andrew Bennett -- Malfolio: foul papers on the Shakespeare authorship question / Willy Maley -- The authorship question: an historian's perspective / William D. Rubinstein -- The distraction of 'Freud': literature, psychoanalysis and the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy / Nicholas Royle -- No biography: Shakespeare, author / Sean Gaston -- Shakespearean selves / Graham Holderness -- Shakinomics; or, the Shakespeare authorship question and the undermining of traditional authority / William Leahy -- Fighting over Shakespeare's authorship: identity, power and academic debate / Sandra G. L. Schruijer -- Mark Rylance (former artistic director, Globe Theatre, London) ; Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic director, Globe Theatre, London) / interviewed by William Leahy
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"This collection brings together leading literary and cultural critics to explore the Authorship Question as a social, cultural and even theological phenomenon and consider it in all its rich diversity and significance." "William Leahy is Head of the School of Arts at Brunel University, UK."--BOOK JACKET