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Ros Barber: A Thousand Questions Reduced to One: How to Win the Authorship Argument

The Shakespeare authorship question is a large and complex area of study, which is further complicated by its association with entrenched belief systems and thus, high emotion. The psychological phenomena of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance mean that those deeply committed to their beliefs as being ‘true’ (both Stratfordians and non-Stratfordians) are not only unable to process conflicting data, but get angry if challenged to do so, thus reducing clarity of thinking further. Arguing with any stripe of ‘true believer’ is unproductive, so I do not use ‘argument’ in that sense, but in the academic sense of presenting a logical, reasoned and evidence-based case that might persuade the persuadable. After compiling (so far) 600+ pages of the e-book compendium Shakespeare the Evidence, and creating the University of London’s MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the Shakespeare Authorship Question, which has attracted nearly 15,000 participants to date, Ros has become clear about the strengths and the weaknesses of the arguments on both sides. There are a thousand questions we might ask or be asked by opponents, but she suggests we first begin by asking ourselves, and perhaps our opponents, just five. These five questions, devised by someone who escaped a religious cult, effectively level the playing field for a fair game. From a thousand questions to five; but can we simplify further? Ros believes there is only one question non-Stratfordians need to be able the answer, which is currently beyond us. This question was planted in the First Folio, so never more relevant than in this 400th anniversary year. What is the key question? And is there any way we might, convincingly, answer it? Bio: Dr Ros Barber is a senior lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. She is the author and presenter of the world’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the Shakespeare authorship question (coursera.org/learn/Shakespeare). Shakespeare: The Evidence, her ongoing online compendium of the evidence, arguments and counter-arguments used in contesting the orthodox case, can be found at leanpub.com/shakespeare. She is editor and co-author of 30-Second Shakespeare (2015), Know-it-all Shakespeare (2017) in the US. Her articles on early modern literary biography have been published in Rethinking History, Journal of Early Modern Studies, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Critical Survey, Notes & Queries and American Notes & Queries. Barber is three times winner (2011, 2014, 2018) of the Hoffman Prize for a distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe. Learn more at https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org