Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - CHAP T2 - Edmondson, Shakespeare beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy SP - 111-20 ID - bbbc430 T1 - "What Does Textual Evidence Reveal about the Author?" AU - Mardock, James AU - Rasmussen, Eric PY - 2013 DA - 2013 LA - English AB - Illustrates how details in the texts of Shakespeare's plays, such as plotting which facilitates the doubling of roles, demonstrate that the writer must have been a theater professional intimately familiar with the workings of the stage, and therefore could not have been "an amateur, aristocratic playwright hiding his authorship behind the false front of an illiterate player, as Oxford is imagined by his supporters to have done." ER -