I just learned that my publisher, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, has within a month of publishing my own book, also released another authorship-related title, What’s in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Question Explored over a Two-Hundred-Year Period by John Lawrence Toma and Delyse Ann Huntley. According to the CS website, the book

llustrates the diverse and simultaneous happenings in the varied and complex Europe of the 1500s and 1600s AD, mainly focusing on England and Italy, the two major protagonists of this most fascinating period of history, when military interventions, literature, art and religious philosophies formed the Europe which we have inherited today. The book is enriched with more than 1000 illustrations and a 100-year calendar of historical events, in addition to references to 1,168 important contemporaries who lived in England, Italy and Europe during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This book also delves in depth into the fascinating mystery of the authorship question in relation to who wrote the Shakespearean works.

Taken together, my book and now the publication of What’s in a Name would seem to indicate a growing (and long overdue!) acceptance in academia of the legitimacy of the Shakespeare authorship question.