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The First Doubter Named a Committee

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  • Who Wrote Shakespeare

    Our goal is the advancement of learning with reference to the social, political, and literary history in the 16th & 17th centuries and the authorship of the works that appeared under the name William Shakespeare.

  • Robin Williams

    In 2006 I published “Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?” about the possibility that Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke, probably wrote the works attributed to the man named William Shakespeare.

  • Dr R Barber

    Director of Research of the SAT, Author of Shakespeare: The Evidence and the Coursera MOOC Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare

  • SAT Administrator

    Administrator for the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. Please email [email protected] if you have any admin queries.

  • Tom Woosnam

    I am a retired high school physics teacher, living in Southern Oregon

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