Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

University of Warwick doctoral researcher Peter Kerwin -- in his blog The Shakespeare Apocrypha , one of the Warwick Blogs written by students and staff of the University of Warwick -- engaged in a lengthy discussion of Shakespeare authorship with alternate-authorship advocate Howard Schumann responding to Kerwin's Aug. 24, 2010 blog post announcing his July 29, 2010 publication of an article titled "Knowing Will Too Well" in the University of Warwick's  Knowledge Centre  online magazine . In his 23:32, August 28, 2010 comment responding to Schumann, Kerwin said: The purpose of the [Knowledge Center] article was not to prove that Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays, which frankly I don’t care about either way, but to point out that the essential grounds for doubt are flawed, and that creative biography is in many ways to blame, and that the debate cannot be resolved on these terms. Earlier that day at 14:28, Aug. 28, 2010 Kirwin had commented to Schumann: Your ...

University of Warwick doctoral researcher Peter Kirwan posted a commentary about a new book edited by William Leahy ,  Shakespeare and his Authors: Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question ,  on his Shakespeare Apocrapha blog dated April 1, 2010 . Before offering his insights on Leahy’s collection of essays, Kirwan made this statement of his viewpoint regarding two key issues in the Shakespeare authorship scrum: 1) That academic institutions - and English Literature departments in particular - are deliberately and systematically dedicated to the silencing (as opposed to answering) of anti-Stratfordians, or in fact anyone who expresses doubt. This is something I'm very happy to concede. The book collates some shockingly extreme and offensive language applied to anti-Stratfordians that compares them to Holocaust deniers or Creationists. The violence of the academy towards anti-Stratfordians, to my mind, is ill-judged, unprofessional and very troublesome. There is noth...