Oberon Shakespeare Study Group

Stephen Marche's vicious, NYT Magazine review of Roland Emmerich's film,  Anonymous,  earned brickbats from an atypical source last fall. On Nov. 16, 2011 the weblog Organizations and Markets  ran a post titled "Shakespeare and Epistemology" in which economist Peter G. Klein chastised Marche for his hubris in  excoriating   the anti-Stratfordian viewpoint.  "I don’t know anything about the issue other than what I’ve read in recent commentaries, but Marche’s case, in the piece linked above, is surprisingly weak," Klein wrote. He elaborated: some Shakespeare products are dated after de Vere died, which only proves that de Vere couldn’t have written those; the doubters are snobs who don’t believe a poor country boy could have written such beautiful verse, which could be true, but hardly establishes that the country boy did in fact write them; and other circumstantial bits and ex cathedra pronouncements. But his major criticism was for Stratfordian...