ABSTRACT

This edition first published in 1962.

The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the Shakespearean plays. It provides the general reader with an outline history of this controversy and with a full description and analysis of the main anti-Stratfordian arguments. This book concentrates on the four main claimants: Bacon, Oxford, Derby and Marlowe.

The book contains an extensive bibliography and footnotes to guide the reader through the text.

chapter 1|14 pages

Theories and Theorists

chapter 2|17 pages

Denigration of an Actor

chapter 3|24 pages

The Case for Francis Bacon 1

chapter 4|19 pages

The Case for the Oxford Syndicate

chapter 5|33 pages

The Case for Lord Derby

chapter 6|28 pages

The Case for Christopher Marlowe

chapter 7|20 pages

Parallelisms and the ‘Promus'

chapter 8|17 pages

Shakespeare's Scholarship and Vocabulary

chapter 9|14 pages

Metamorphoses of the Sonnets

chapter 10|7 pages

Richard II and the Missing Link

chapter 11|14 pages

The Hidden Hand In ‘As You Like It'

chapter 12|12 pages

The Northumberland MS

chapter 13|10 pages

The Feudal Aristocrat

chapter 14|12 pages

Portraits and Monuments

chapter 15|10 pages

Four Miscellaneous Items

chapter 16|21 pages

A Tug-of-War with the First Folio

chapter 17|12 pages

Vice Versa

chapter 18|8 pages

Confusions and Conclusions