May Book Review – “I am Shakespeare”

• The first of several book reviews this month at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s website is Mark Rylance’s I am Shakespeare. The librarian remarks that she hopes this month’s choices are “diverse” enough to inspire new readers.

• May Book Review – Finding Shakespeare

  • I hope you find this month’s Book Review interesting.  In order to cater for a wide range of tastes, this choice will hopefully be diverse enough in its attempt to inspire new readers.
  • I Am Shakespeare. A play by Mark Rylance. This play examines the authorship debate using a ‘Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show’ setting as its platform. It presents four alternative candidates as authors, the philosopher, Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere and Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke.

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Will the real Shakespeare please stand up | Illawarra Mercury

It’s a subject that divides a lot of people and everyone has an opinion on it.

Did William Shakespeare write Shakespeare? And if he didn’t, then who did?

These knotty questions are wrestled with, in Workshop Theatre’s latest production, the Australian premiere of Mark Rylance’s I Am Shakespeare.

The debate over the Shakespeare authorship question has been going since the middle of the 19th century, driven in part by how little we know about the man, William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, outside of his plays and sonnets.

In the play, philosopher Sir Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, are presented as alternative authors of the works.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1426241/will-the-real-shakespeare-please-stand-up/?cs=2387