Shakespeare and His Authors

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The life of the author, William Leahy (Brunel University, UK) 1. On not knowing Shakespeare (and on Shakespeare not knowing): Romanticism, the authorship question, and English Literature, Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol, UK) 2. Malfolio: foul papers on the Shakespeare authorship question, Willy Maley (University of Glasgow, UK) 3. The authorship question: an historian's perspective, William D. Rubinstein (University of Aberystwyth, UK) 4. The distraction of 'Freud': Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Bacon - Shakespeare controversy, Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex, UK) 5. No biography: Shakespeare, author, Sean Gaston (Brunel University, UK) 6. Shakespearean selves, Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 7. Shakinomics or, the Shakespeare authorship question and the undermining of traditional authority, William Leahy (Brunel University, UK) 8. Fighting over Shakespeare's authorship: identity, power and academic Debate, Sandra G. L. Schruijer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 9. Mark Rylance (Former Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London), Interviewed by William Leahy (Brunel University, UK) 10. Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London), Interviewed by William Leahy (Brunel University, UK) Index.