Shakespeare Authorship: Historical Evidence and Debate

Dr. Ros Barber is a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, and serves as the Director of Research at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust. She has published extensively on Shakespeare, including notable works such as 30-Second Shakespeare (known as Know-It-All Shakespeare in the USA), Shakespeare: The Evidence, and Bardly True. Her scholarly articles on Early Modern literary biography have appeared in various academic journals, and she has received multiple awards for her contributions to the field, including the Calvin Hoffman Prize for distinguished publications on Christopher Marlowe. A prize-winning novelist, her debut novel The Marlowe Papers, written entirely in iambic pentameter, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Dr. Barber teaches the course "Introduction to Who Wrote Shakespeare," where she explores the complexities surrounding authorship and literary history. Her work engages with both creative and critical perspectives on literature, making significant contributions to discussions about authorship attribution and the legacy of Shakespeare's works.