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Questions over Shakespeare’s authorship began in his lifetime, scholar claims theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

@_Nullifidian_ You calling Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe ‘Scribbling amateurs’? 😆 You’re not someone whose opinion is worth taking seriously.

@ShakeAuthTrust to answer. "No" was the obvious answer to anyone with an ear for verse and early modern English. The idea of scribbling amateurs penning Shakespeare's plays can also be soundly rejected by anyone with even the most minimal background knowledge about early modern theatre practice.

@_Nullifidian_ @aq_anon76486 @OliverKamm 🤣

@ShakeAuthTrust @aq_anon76486 @OliverKamm Is this argument by fiat the same way you approach the subject of authorship?

Trust the Mail to get it completely wrong, just like Kamm. Who has time to read and understand BOOKS these days?

Important chapter in Teaching and Learning Practices for Academic Freedom on the authorship question as “a significant but under-examined example of a threat to academic freedom originating from within the academy” emerald.com/insight/conten…

@_Nullifidian_ @OliverKamm @aq_anon76486 You can’t have it both ways. The presence of peer-reviewed SAQ articles disproves your original point. “Sneaking”. 😂

@ShakeAuthTrust @OliverKamm @aq_anon76486 Wow, a whole 13 articles in 17 years! Even the intelligent design creationists can boast of a better publication record. They also think that sneaking minor articles through the peer-review process constitutes an endorsement of their broader position.

@_Nullifidian_ @aq_anon76486 It would be hilarious to see someone as ignorant about the authorship question to try and get involved in the discussion, but it's clear @Oliverkamm isn't qualified to do offer anything other than ad hominems and false equivalences.

@ShakeAuthTrust @aq_anon76486 Speaking of getting it wrong, in his letter to Simon Godwin, Kamm OFFERED to join this discussion as the representative Shakespearian if an academic scholar specializing in Shakespeare could not be found. So either you're wrong about what Kamm knows about the subject or he'd 1/x

@OliverKamm @_Nullifidian_ @aq_anon76486 You are a very out-of-date on this issue, journalist. Take your claim of 'anti-intellectualism' to OUP, Berghahn, Taylor & Francis etc. The authorship question is getting peer-reviewed publications. This is just a sample.

@_Nullifidian_ @ShakeAuthTrust @aq_anon76486 Indeed. My view is that literary scholars have no obligation to meet Shakespeare denialists in debate, just as biologists have far better things to do than engage with biblical creationists, but I’m perfectly happy as a journalist to point out the flaws in their case myself.

@_Nullifidian_ You are *so* far behind the curve if you think Eliot and Valenza's work from the 1990s stands up to scrutiny. I speak as someone who has published in Digital Scholar in the Humanities in the last 3 years, peer review articles for them, and was invited to join the editorial board

@ShakeAuthTrust in-depth examination of grammar and word usage, and computer-aided stylometry) have excluded the standard "authorship candidates" with the exception of Marlowe, and that's no comfort to the Marlovians since Marlowe's hand can be identified as DISTINCT from Shakespeare's and 3/x

@RTHG82 Well the row is true, because Kamm made it so, but this is not what the book he is so cross about is claiming.

@ShakeAuthTrust Would not be surprised if it were true.

Oliver Kamm’s tantrum about - checks notes - *a book discussion in a library* is making the news. He complains about anti-intellectualism while complaining about a set text on a Harvard history course.

@aq_anon76486 He’s frightened of a book.

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Save the date. Sunday 17th November 2024. We have an amazing conference day in London planned including sections of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrèce read in person by Sir Mark Rylance.

@WillMonox2112 Yes, and this is one case where you CAN judge a book by its cover.

@ShakeAuthTrust I cannot take seriously any book with a dust jacket that looks like this:

Link where you'd expect.

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