Professor Stanley Wells and Mark Rylance debate the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

September 27, 2007

On 27 September, 2007, Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford, criticized Mark Rylance, Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, and Sir Derek Jacobi for signing the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt in an article in The Stage magazine. You can read Prof. Wells’ letter, followed by Mark’s reply, plus a point-by-point rebuttal to Wells’ criticisms of the Declaration (written by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition) on the SAC website, www.DoubtAboutWill.org, or you can read the full transcript here, as a PDF document.