Is That True? Shakespearean Explorations brings together the research and writings of an expert of the English Renaissance, encompassing 50 years of scholarship which appeared in numerous peer reviewed journals. This compendium of papers, essays and book reviews examine the controversial subject of the Shakespeare authorship question from the perspective of a literary historian, someone who views the Bard as an integral part of a literary network of poets, playwrights and novelists. In addition to “learned and valiant,” one character in Twelfth Night is said to be “In voices well divulged,” meaning praised by many. The same may be said of both Shakespeare and Warren Hope, but with the additional subtler meaning that these latter two express themselves in a number of diverse voices, coming from single consistent perspectives. We can find this in the collection of Warren Hope’s writings, published here and covering half a century of original research and scholarship: articles, reviews, and other writings. —Michael Delahoyde, Professor of English, Washington State University Hope brilliantly lays out his literary evidence for concluding that the 17th Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) was the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare. The articles in Part I of this collection demonstrate his reasons for arriving at that conclusion, while his reviews in Part II of books by those who support the conventional view and by those who support the Oxfordian view, as well as by those who try to circumvent the authorship question, are incisive. —Don Ostrowski, History Lecturer and Research Associate, Harvard Universityweiterlesen