by Linda Theil Shakespeare Fellowship trustee and immediate past president Earl Showerman kicked off his fourth year teaching the Shakespeare authorship question at Southern Oregon University’s Osher Lifelong LearningInstitute with a class titled, titled, " The Shakespeare Authorship Challenge: State of the Debate 2013" . Following the first day of class on April 17, 2013, Showerman said: I have about 20 in class, half-of-whom are already converts. Not exactly preaching to the converted, but it is fun to see how people really light up when they get an idea about what is at stake and the terms of the discussion. . . . The SBT (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) polemic, “Shakespeare Bites Back” was discussed yesterday as a way [of] showing them how threatened and vitriolic are our critics. We'll use Steve McClarran's second edition of I Come to BuryShaksper , (2011) (available later this month I understand) as a primary text. Showerman also intends to discu...
a Michigan group dedicated to the study of the works of William Shakespeare with particular interest in the authorship question