„ ....if we get the identity of the greatest writer of all time wrong, surely there’s a problem somewhere that needs to be solved. „
Don Rubin, President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association, Professor of Theatre at Toronto’s York University, in →Critical Stages (A Web journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics - IATC) wrote a review in
→"Shakespeare beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial.
Some final quotations from this review:
...It took authority 500 years to admit it was wrong about the sun moving around the earth. During those centuries, those who kept trying to show people the facts were ridiculed into oblivion. And no doubt, those who today want to open the authorship debate in academe find themselves under similar attack.
...the authorship issue, without any doubt, remains and seems (if the remarkable number of books pouring out on this subject is any indication) to be getting even hotter.
Does it ultimately matter? The plays still remain whoever wrote them. Certainly, that’s true. But if we get the identity of the greatest writer of all time wrong, surely there’s a problem somewhere that needs to be solved.
→"Shakespeare beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial.
Some final quotations from this review:
...It took authority 500 years to admit it was wrong about the sun moving around the earth. During those centuries, those who kept trying to show people the facts were ridiculed into oblivion. And no doubt, those who today want to open the authorship debate in academe find themselves under similar attack.
...the authorship issue, without any doubt, remains and seems (if the remarkable number of books pouring out on this subject is any indication) to be getting even hotter.
Does it ultimately matter? The plays still remain whoever wrote them. Certainly, that’s true. But if we get the identity of the greatest writer of all time wrong, surely there’s a problem somewhere that needs to be solved.
