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When facts are filed under fiction

When Robin Williams, SAT Trustee and expert in the history and practice of reading Shakespeare, published Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare? in 2006, she laid out a detailed case for Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke...

6 days ago
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September News Round-up

Imagination, archives, and a long goodbye

September brought new creative spaces for doubters, a restored research archive, a cold case reopened, and the usual parade of plays and books putting the man from Stratford at the centre of s...

13 days ago
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What a Checkable Case Could Look Like

Not Without Proof

Several proposed authorship candidates remain logically possible on the surviving evidence, if not equally well supported. Without a document that names the writer, none of them can be established beyond reasonable doubt....

20 days ago
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All Things Are Ready!

We are pleased to announce that tickets are now on sale for the Shakespearean Authorship Trust Conference on 22 November, 2026.

This is a live in-person event to be held at the Marylebone Theatre in London, U.K.

“All things are ready, if...

a month ago
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Marlowe, the Vatican, and Shakespeare’s Sources

with Marie Jansen and Lars Holger

Marie Janssen and Lars Holger Holm present an intriguing—and decidedly adventurous—Marlovian argument involving Christopher Marlowe, Giordano Bruno, the School of Night, a supposedly staged murder, and an...

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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.

  • Kristin Bundesen

    Historian and pop culture geek. Shakespeare nerd.

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

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    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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