Shakespeare Authorship Debate held at the English-Speaking Union

June 26, 2011

On June 6th, 2011, two of the SAT’s Trustees, Charles Beauclerk and William Leahy, joined Roland Emmerich in debate at the English Speaking Union in Mayfair to speak against the motion - "This House believes that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays and poems attributed to him." The Stratfordian panel who argued for the motion was made up of Stanley Wells, Michael Dobson, and Paul Edmondson. The debate represents the first public discussion of the Shakespeare Authorship Question in the light of the impending release of Emmerich’s film, Anonymous.