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Classroom Resources
Looking for material to help teach the authorship question in your classroom? This is your page. Bibliographies and more free resources are coming!
Print Resources
Shakespeare's Self
Portrait: A Summary
Charlton Ogburn's masterful 15 page condensation of the authorship question makes an ideal reader for beginning students of the authorship controversy. Click here for the free e-copy.
$3 postpaid from Oxenford Press. Inquire about bulk discount rates: we just want to recoup enough money to keep the presses rolling.
The Man who Was Shakespeare: A Summary of the Case Unfolded in The Mysterious William Shakespeare.
The 94-page version of Ogburn's case for Oxford as the author. A superb survey for the serious young mind, but lacks the comparative analysis of Shake-speare: The Man Behind the Name.
$4.76 from Amazon
A Hawk from a Handsaw : a Student's Guide to the Shakespeare Mystery
Detailed Study guide on the authorship question.
by Rollin DeVere
$9.95 from Amazon
Paperback - 81 pages (1993)
The University School Press; ISBN: 0929940075
Shakespeare: Who Was He? The Oxford Challenge to the Bard of Avon , By Richard Whalen.
A standard classroom reference. Whalen, a founding member of the Shakespeare Fellowship, bends over backwards to be fair to the orthodox side. A useful resource for High School students.
$15.75 from Amazon
A Question of Will by Lynn Kositsky
Lynne Kositsky proves that the authorship question is not all about serious, sober scholarship and debate, but also about fun. Entertaining, brilliant, whimsical adventure of the 13-year-old heroine Willow who falls through a wormhole in time and arrives back in Elizabethan London c. 1598, just in time to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and figure out that de Vere is the real author of the Shakespeare canon.
$5.95 from Amazon
Robert Barrett, who is perhaps more acquainted with the potentials and pitfalls of teaching the authorship question at the secondary school level than any other educator in America, tells us that his students love the (unfortunately o.p.) Shake-speare: The Man Behind the Name (William Morrow & Co. 1962) by Dorothy Ogburn and Charlton Ogburn (Jr.).Despite being superceded in a few minor factual matters, the book provides an excellent condensation of the case for the Earl of Oxford's authorship, and very useful comparative sections contrasting what is known about William Shaksper and Oxford. The Shakespeare Fellowship will endeavor to make the book available on our web site, but until that becomes possible you'll have to find your own copy on the used print market.
For advanced Print Resources Please see our Bookshelf
Online Resource coming soon: Robert Brazil's 33 Coincidences
Website Resources on teaching the Authorship Question
Ralph Bucci at the Charles W. Flanagan High School in Ft. Lauderdale Fla. invites students on a Shakespeare Authorship Webquest, to act as "members of the jury as you hear a case that has been debated for more than 200 years....The evidence for the other candidates all seem very persuasive until the next set of evidence is presented," continutes Bucci, "which seems to confound the problem. But with all of this information out on the table, conspiracy theorists just might be on to something." Bucci goes on to outline a number of strategies for researching, conceptualizing and writing about the authorship question.
The theme of this instructional unit, designed by Robert Marcinkus as part of Kenosha Wisconsion School District Authorship Lesson Plan is to "research and develop data on the issue of authorship for Shakespeare's plays" and learn to "Persuade or argue a particular side of an issue."