"What Does Textual Evidence Reveal about the Author?" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc430/ Author: Mardock, James; Rasmussen, Eric. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2013 Publication Information: Edmondson, Shakespeare beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, 111–20. : Edmondson, Shakespeare beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy Annotation: 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." Language: English Persons: Edmondson, Paul; Wells, Stanley; Vere, Edward de Tags: Authorship Controversy WSB Update: Fall 2013 WSB Record Number: bbbc430