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Shakespeare authorshipAtlas

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Competing accounts of whether William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the works attributed to him, or whether another educated candidate authored them under that name.

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Timeline

  1. 1564 · eventBirth of William Shakespeare of Stratford
  2. 1590 · eventShakespeare name appears on printed plays and poems
  3. 1623 · eventFirst Folio published
  4. 1623 · document_releasePublication of the Shakespeare First Folio
  5. 1800 · first_appearanceBacon proposed among earliest alternative authorship candidates
  6. 1850 · popularizationBaconian theory becomes leading anti-Stratfordian candidacy
  7. 1850 · first_appearanceModern anti-Stratfordian theories organize
  8. 1866 · document_releaseHolmes authorship treatise circulates in the debate
  9. 1900 · amplificationBaconian theory remains prominent into the early twentieth century
  10. 1920 · amplificationOxfordian theory gains organized advocates
  11. 1932 · eventFolger Shakespeare Library opens as major institutional Shakespeare center
  12. 1980 · popularizationPublic debates and mock trials raise visibility
  13. 2000 · investigationResearch libraries continue publishing authorship and collaboration notes on the canon
  14. 2010 · mutationDigital archives refresh candidate-evidence arguments

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