Emma Smith

Shakespeare sceptics are the new literary heroes

Anyone who doubts Shakespeare’s authorship is brave, open-minded and intellectually explorative, compared to the uptight, shifty ‘Stratfordians’ in Elizabeth Winkler’s view

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, one of many candidates proposed as the author of Shakespeare’s plays. [Bridgeman Images] 
issue 03 June 2023

  • Shakespeare was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    Elizabeth Winkler

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 416, £20

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