Special Topic II: The Question That Won’t Go Away

Section Editor: Don Rubin (Canada)

Don Rubin is Editor of the six-volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. He is a Professor Emeritus of Theatre at York University in Toronto and Founding Director and Former Chair of both York’s Department of Theatre and its Graduate Program in Theatre Studies.

Introduction
The Question That Won’t Go Away:
Did the Man From Stratford Really Write the Plays?

by Don Rubin, Special Topic

Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance: Reasonable Doubt about the Identity of William Shakespeare

by Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, Special Topic

A Theatre Artist’s Path:
Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

by Keir Cutler, Special Topic

What’s the Question in Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography?

by Diana Price, Special Topic

Transforming Productions of Shakespeare’s Plays

by Gary Goldstein, Special Topic

Shakespeare as Lawyer
Hamlet: Death, Property, and the Pursuit of Justice

by Thomas Regnier, Special Topic

The Argument for Edward de Vere: “Shake-speare” Was a Man of the Theatre

by Hank Whittemore, Special Topic

Pourquoi ‘John Florio, alias Shakespeare’ ?

by Michel Vaïs, Special Topic

An Interview with Mark Rylance
“It’s important to know how great works of theatre are made”

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