Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: The Shakespeare Authorship Question Today

What do we know about the author of Shakespeare's works? Journalist Elizabeth Winkler leads an international panel of academics in a discussion of this controversial topic. She is a young journalist with degrees in English Literature from Princeton and Stanford. Her new book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard became the Biggest Taboo in Literature, is the first in-depth investigation into academia's reaction to research questioning William of Stratford's authorship of Shakespeare's works. The book has been reviewed in The Guardian, which calls it “A fascinating detective story… whose irreverence is part of its appeal."

Panelists:

Dr. John Ray Proctor III, Department of Theater, Tulane University

Dr. Scott Oldenburg, Department of English, Tulane University

Dr. Ros Barber, Novelist and Lecturer in English, University of London

Dr. Earl Showerman, President, Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship