Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?

The Book the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Doesn’t Want You to Read: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Never has the case against the Stratford man been made so clear and compelling. Unsettled by the growing success of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and its online Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon has published a book insisting that the identity of the author William Shakespeare is “beyond doubt.” In this withering reply a dozen scholars expose the bankruptcy of this claim and challenge the Birthplace Trust to stand and defend its position under cross-examination in a televised mock trial. “Authorities tell us there is no doubt that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Should we trust them? This book comes at a critical time, with defenders of orthodoxy deceiving the public about how weak their case really is. It is time for a serious re-examination of the evidence. This book does just that.” – Richard Waugaman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Faculty Expert on Shakespeare for Media Contacts, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. “It is good that there is a book where people can learn why some of us doubt the attribution of the Shakespeare canon to Shakspere of Stratford. The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, and now this book, may help to dispel some of the negative impressions and untruths being spread about authorship skeptics by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust of Stratford-upon-Avon.” – Mark Rylance, Artistic Director (1995-2005), Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre “The lack of any reasoned, evidence-based and impartial response from Stratfordian scholars to the suggestion that there is ‘reasonable doubt’ that the man from Stratford wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare blows an enormous hole in the orthodox argument.” – Sir Derek Jacobi, Shakespearean actor “Stratfordians have long been wrong about Shakespeare, obstinately wrong since Delia Bacon, and absurdly wrong since the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt. They seem determined to be the last to recognize that ‘the Emperor’ is woefully under-clad. Every chapter in this powerful book is devastating to the orthodox case. This is a bombshell of a book!” – Michael York, Actor/Author The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition: www.DoubtAboutWill.org Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare

Cover art, with printed text from the limited edition poster version of the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare superimposed on the Droeshout engraving image of “Shakespeare,” but with a question mark on its face, by Nikita Filin. Final cover design by Josander Skevis.