AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question (English Edition)

AKA Shakespeare—comprising this book and the accompanying website—offers a do-it-yourself kit to help you solve the mystery of the identity of the Great Author who was either named Shakespeare or adopted that name as his nom-de-plume. AKA Shakespeare develops a scientific approach to this intriguing, four-hundred-year-old question. To explain the approach and develop the necessary concepts and to enliven the discussion, the book is written in the form of a dialog. To begin with, one participant is a Stratfordian, and a second participant is a skeptic. Two more participants try to be impartial and to steer the debate along scientific lines. Each reader is encouraged to enter his or her own judgments (in a simple numerical form) concerning each of several separate issues. A hidden magician on the website, affectionately known as Prospero, will analyze those judgments and return the results to the reader.