The Romance of Yachting

The Romance of Yachting: Voyage The First
Author	Joseph C. Hart
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication place	United States
Pages	332

The Romance of Yachting (full title: The Romance of Yachting: Voyage The First) is an 1848 work by Joseph C. Hart published by Harper and Brothers. The work is considered notable for being the first work to claim that William Shakespeare was not the true author of the plays that are attributed to him.^[1] The work was for a long time overlooked in the Shakespeare authorship question debate with an article in the Chambers's Edinburgh Journal generally being treated by all authorities as the first work that questioned whether Shakespeare was the true author. References to The Romance of Yachting first appeared in The Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Literature. Despite its title, the book has little to say about yachting and has been described as a 'kind of horn book of digression'.^[2] Wyman characterise the work as a 'gossipy account of a voyage to Spain'.^[3]

References

^ W. H. Wyman (2003), Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy with Notes and Extracts, Kessinger Publishing Co, p. 9
^ William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman (2011) The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined: An analysis of cryptographic systems used as evidence that some author other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays commonly attributed to him, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 3
^ W. H. Wyman (2003), Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy with Notes and Extracts, Kessinger Publishing Co, p. 9

External links

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[1] W. H. Wyman (2003), Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy with Notes and Extracts, Kessinger Publishing Co, p. 9

[2] William F. Friedman, Elizabeth S. Friedman (2011) The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined: An analysis of cryptographic systems used as evidence that some author other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays commonly attributed to him, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 3

[3] W. H. Wyman (2003), Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy with Notes and Extracts, Kessinger Publishing Co, p. 9

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v t e Shakespeare authorship question
A series on alternative authorship theories for the works of William Shakespeare
Overview	History of the Shakespeare authorship question Shakespeare attribution studies Is Shakespeare Dead? Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
Theories	Baconian Crollalanza Derbyite Florio Lanier Marlovian Nevillean Oxfordian Prince Tudor Shaykh Zubayr
Candidates	List of Shakespeare authorship candidates Francis Bacon Emilia Lanier Christopher Marlowe Henry Neville William Stanley Edward de Vere
Proponents	Joseph Adler Mark Anderson Babette Babich Delia Bacon Ros Barber Charles Wisner Barrell Charles Beauclerk Alden Brooks Charles Champlin Jeffery Donaldson Ignatius L. Donnelly Bert Fields George Greenwood Joseph C. Hart Calvin Hoffman Derek Jacobi Richard Kennedy Abel Lefranc J. Thomas Looney Sandra Day O'Connor Charlton Ogburn Charlton Greenwood Ogburn John Orloff Orville Ward Owen John Denham Parsons Prince Philip Michael Rubbo William Rubinstein Mark Rylance Henry Seymour Joseph Sobran John Paul Stevens Roger Stritmatter Mark Twain Bernard Mordaunt Ward Alexander Waugh Walt Whitman James Wilde Robin Williams (writer)