Sturrock invites readers to weigh in as well and arrive at their own conclusion.
The spirited conversations between ..
Prof. Peter Sturrock, a british scientist and emeritus professor of applied physics (Video- ->astrophysicist) at Stanford university explores in his elegant but mathematically demanding book, AKA *1 Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question the argument through the eyes of four different [I suppose autobiographical] characters, skills and perspectives.
They voice their opinions on 25 pieces of evidence, and Sturrock invites readers to weigh in as well and arrive at their own conclusion.
Early Prof. Sturrock must have felt that the sonnets were autobiographical and in asking what the sonnets are all about, he was led automatically to the question:
Early Prof. Sturrock must have felt that the sonnets were autobiographical and in asking what the sonnets are all about, he was led automatically to the question:
Who was Shakespeare? Sturrock does have a (biased?) opinion.(Oxfordian)
As far as the complex Shakespeare authorship debate of Shakespeare is concerned unfortunalely I fear, that Sturrock's very "Shakespearean" aproach to develop a problem as a dialog and to make a scientific procedure comprehensible to non-scientists, will not be very successful: the (too little) amount of knowledge defines the (too little) questions he may ask..
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..and it is difficult to compare two real "substantial" personalities (W.Shaksper-Stratford and Edward de Vere) with a fictive unsubstantial "some-one" else. I would have liked to know the result, if Sturrock had replaced "someone else" by Marlowe, using all the knowledge available today.
*1[AKA = also known as]
*1[AKA = also known as]
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