Bonner Miller Cutting — Profiling the Author: Will the Real Shakespeare Please Stand Up?

How did J. Thomas Looney’s evidence-based “profile” methodology lead him to the likely author of the works published under the name “William Shakespeare”?

Bonner Miller Cutting is a respected author and lecturer on Shakespeare. An accomplished pianist, she earned her B.F.A. from Tulane University and her Master of Music from McNeese State University in Louisiana. In this talk, Cutting explores the evidence analyzed in Looney’s landmark 1920 book, “Shakespeare Identified,” as well as key facts later discovered or explored by other researchers of which Looney was unaware, yet which have corroborated his findings, including Queen Elizabeth’s mysteriously generous grant to Edward de Vere (Earl of Oxford) of an annuity of 1,000 pounds per year.

This talk was presented on March 4, 2020, at the “Shakespeare Identified” Centennial Symposium at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Bob Meyers, who moderated the symposium and introduced the speakers, is an award-winning journalist and author who formerly served as president of the National Press Foundation and director of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health.

For more on the Shakespeare authorship question see ShakespeareOxfordFellowship.org.