Shakespeare Identified: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Shakespeare Identified, credited to J. Thomas Looney, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Shakespeare Identified by J. Thomas Looney. Read in English by Lucretia B.; Elizabeth Klett; Lyn Silva; Rebecca Thomas; Lee Smalley; DPranitis; Larry Wilson; KHand; Lynne Thompson; Craig Kenneth Bryant; Edward Kirkby; Kingof192; doonaboon; Mary in Arkansas; Ellen Preckel; Greg Giordano That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled specialists must doubtless appear to many as a glaring act of over- boldness; whilst to pretend to have actually solved this most momentous of literary puzzles will seem to some like sheer hallucination. What I have to propose, however, is not an accidental discovery, but one resulting from a systematic search. And it is to the nature of the method, combined with a happy inspiration and a fortunate chance, that the results here described were reached. These convinced me that the opponents of the orthodox view had made good their case to this extent, that there was no sufficient evidence that the man William Shakespeare had written the works with which he was credited, whilst there was a very strong prima facie presumption that he had not. Everything seemed to point to his being but a mask, behind which some great genius, for inscrutable reasons, had elected to work out his own destiny. (Summary by ToddHW, from Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Shakespeare Identified
• Author credits: J. Thomas Looney
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 16:55:20

Catalogue topics

• Shakespeare
• British History
• plays

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 00 - Preface and Preliminary Note — 7:06
2. 01 - Introduction — 23:27
3. 02 - The Stratfordian View, part 1 — 9:32
4. 03 - The Stratfordian View, part 2 — 15:41
5. 04 - The Stratfordian View, part 3 — 11:56
6. 05 - The Stratfordian View, part 4 — 42:02
7. 06 - The Stratfordian View, part 5 — 22:53
8. 07 - The Stratfordian View, part 6 — 10:16
9. 08 - The Stratfordian View, part 7 — 8:46
10. 09 - The Stratfordian View, part 8 — 5:48
11. 10 - The Stratfordian View, part 9 — 16:15
12. 11 - The Stratfordian View, part 10 — 7:59
13. 12 - Character of the Problem — 27:13
14. 13 - Method of Solution — 11:16
15. 14 - The Author: General Features — 21:30
16. 15 - The Author: Special Characteristics — 29:20
17. 16 - The Search and Discovery — 20:44
18. 17 - Conditions Fulfilled — 14:00
19. 18 - Edward De Vere as Lyric Poet — 25:45
20. 19 - The Lyric Poetry of Edward De Vere, part 1 — 18:20
21. 20 - The Lyric Poetry of Edward De Vere, part 2 — 19:31
22. 21 - The Lyric Poetry of Edward De Vere, part 3 — 17:01
23. 22 - The Lyric Poetry of Edward De Vere, part 4 — 18:30
24. 23 - Records and Early Life of De Vere, part 1 - The Reputation of the Earl of Oxford — 20:30

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