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SHAKESPEARE LINKS
NB: Links provided are not intended to be comprehensive, but merely to introduce the researcher to the wealth of information available.
These websites provide general information, access to electronic versions of Shakespeare's works and suggest topics for research.
The Republic of Pemberley: Literary Companion
The Shakespeare Homepage (from MIT)
Las Positas College Shakespeare Page
A controversy continues over Shakespeare's identity, in part because although he seems to have known a great deal about the law we have no evidence that he ever studied the subject formally. Thus, some commentators believe that "someone else" (possibly a highly placed politician or important nobleman) wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare and that the William Shakespeare of history was merely a sixteenth-century "front".
The Earl of Oxford, Hackney-and Shakespeare?
David Kathman, Why I Am Not an Oxfordian
The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook
Shakespeare's Knowledge of Law
George Greenwood, Shakespeare as a Lawyer (from The Shakespeare Problem Restated)
Charlton Ogburn, Shakespeare's Knowledge of the Law
The Shakespeare Law Library (from The Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook)
Lawrence Schimel and Hardy M. Cook, Shakespeare Spinoffs
This bibliography provides a listing of novels, plays, and films based on Shakespearean characters or themes.
Richard F. Whalen, Shakespeare: Who Was He? (Annotated bibliography)
Samuel Johnson's "Shakespeare"
Robert W. Peterson, The Bard and the Bench. Essay available at 39 Santa Clara Law Review 789,
Robert W. Peterson, Shakespeare and the Law.
John Paul Stevens, The Shakespeare Canon of Statutory Canon (abridged from 140(4) University of Pennsylvania Law Review (April 1992)