News from and about SAC

SAC in the news

April 14, 2016 — Tudor Takedown: Shakespeare skeptics to gather in Rosendale
April 11, 2016 — Hamilton Spectator, Ontario, Canada, interviews Chris Pannell on the SAQ
February 22, 2015 — SAC chairman John Shahan responds to
Skeptic.com blog on authorship debate
December 29, 2014 — Newsweek publishes article on SAC: (Too bad the headline gets it wrong)
April 26, 2014 — U.K.'s Prince Philip said to be a doubter
September 23, 2010 — Southern Oregon Mail Tribune: Declaration signing event in Ashland at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
April 7, 2010 — Powells.com: William Niederkorn's review of Shapiro's Contested Will named review of week by the National Book Critics Circle
April 18, 2009 — Wall Street Journal: Justice JP Stevens and his Supreme Court colleagues address the authorship question
May 31, 2008 — National Public Radio: Mark Rylance speaks with NPR's Weekend Edition about the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
Oct. 29, 2007 — Brunel University press release: More stars declare their doubt of Shakespeare.
Sept. 9, 2007 — The Observer (Guardian), U.K.: Who was Shakespeare? That is (still) the question. Campaign revives controversy of Bard's identity.
Sept. 9, 2007 — BBC London: Actors question Bard's authorship

SAC News Releases

February 15, 2018: University of London now offers free online Shakespeare authorship course
December 9, 2016: SAC News: What we've accomplished; what's next after the 400th anniversary?
November 22, 2016: Droeshout engraving in First Folio has Shakspere wearing impossible doublet!
May 4, 2016: Doubts about Shakespeare go international for the 400th anniversary
April 25, 2016: Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance revive the debate over Shakespeare's identity in an interview with NPR's Renée Montagne.
April 24, 2016: Doubters claim victory on Shakespeare 400th Anniversary, and renew their challenge to Stratfordians to participate in a mock trial.
March 23, 2016: The SAC at Age 10; Six New Notables; 400th Anniversary International Events
December 27, 2015: Declaration of Reasonable Doubt still un-rebutted after more than eight years
November 22, 2015: Droeshout engraving in First Folio has Shakspere wearing impossible doublet!
May 31, 2015: RSC removes Stanley Wells' article on “Authorship Debate” from its website!
September 28, 2014: SAC Update through September, 2014
December 6, 2013: SAC challenges the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to a mock trial, to prove that Shakspere wrote Shakespeare, offering a £40K donation to the winning side.'
November 21, 2011: Actor Michael York and Shakespeare Authorship Coalition challenge the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon with new reasons to doubt the identity of the author William Shakespeare in the wake of Sony Pictures’ heretical film, Anonymous.
April 30, 2011: Over 2,000 sign Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
September 18, 2010: Theater professionals sign Shakespeare Authorship Declaration
April 20, 2010: Happy Birthday and Retirement, Justice John Paul Stevens!
April 19, 2010: Shakespeare Authorship Coalition updates Declaration signatory lists
November 15, 2009: U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor (retired) sign the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt.
April 13, 2009: Award-winning Shakespearean actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance joined by growing list of declared Shakespeare authorship doubters. Michael York joins fellow actors as SAC Patron. Shakespeare Authorship Coalition marks 2nd aniversary of Declaration of Reasonable Doubt. Seven signatories added to SAC “notables” list.
November 17, 2008: Huntington Library staff sign Declaration.
June 3, 2008: Sir Derek Jacobi joins the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition as a SAC patron.
December 1, 2007: First annual report of the Shakespeare authorship coalition: the Coalition’s strategy is working! Over 1,200 people have signed the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, and we’ve attracted enormous attention to the authorship issue. With each new signatory, it becomes more difficult for orthodox scholars to continue claiming that there is “no room for doubt” about the identity of William Shakespeare.
September 23, 2007: Nearly 800 additional signatories have signed the “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare” in the two weeks since prominent Shakespearean actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, former artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, gave the Declaration its launch in the U.K.
July 2, 2007: SAC adds 100 signers to the list of signatories of the “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt”.
April 23, 2007: SAC releases its first list of signatories of the “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt”, on the 391st anniversary of William Shakspere's death.
April 14, 2007: SAC and the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable hold a signing ceremony to issue the “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt”
April 11, 2007: SAC and Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable to issue historic “Declaration of Reasonable Doubt”

SAC contact person: John Shahan at (909) 896-2006 or by e-mail.