The Romance of Yachting
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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 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 the title the book has little to say about yachting and has been described as a 'kind of horn book of digression'. Wyman characterise the work as a 'gossipy account of a voyage to Spain'.
Joseph C. Hart
Joseph Coleman Hart was an American writer. He is now best known as the first person to assert in print that William Shakespeare was not the true author of the plays published under his name...
published by Harper and Brothers. The work is considered notable for being the first work to claim that William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
was not the true author of the plays that are attributed to him The work was for a long time overlooked in the Shakespeare authorship question
Shakespeare authorship question
Image:ShakespeareCandidates1.jpg|thumb|alt=Portraits of Shakespeare and four proposed alternative authors.|Oxford, Bacon, Derby, and Marlowe have each been proposed as the true author...
debate with an article in the Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science...
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 the title the book has little to say about yachting and has been described as a 'kind of horn book of digression'. Wyman characterise the work as a 'gossipy account of a voyage to Spain'.