The Shakespeare Controversy

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction



PART

1. A Founding Mother: Delia Bacon

2. Shakespeare on the Mississippi: Whitman, O'Connor, and Twain

3. The Great Cryptogrammatist: Ignatius Donnelly

4. The Birthplace: Joseph Skipsey and Henry James

5. An Agnostic and Two Rebels: Greenwood, Samuel Butler, and Frank Harris

6. Many Candidates: Marlowe, Rutland, Derby, and So On

7. "Shakespeare" Identified: J. Thomas Looney

8. Professionals, Amateurs, and the Question of Authority

9. The Growing Oxfordian Challenge

10. The Stratfordian Response

11. The Rest Is Scholarship

Chapter Notes



PART

Chronological Annotated Bibliography

Appendices

Associations and Websites

Libraries

Index