"A Question of Will"

Would you like to see young people introduced to the Shakespeare authorship question at an early age? We're raising money to help the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship distribute copies of Lynne Kositsky's A Question of Will, a delightful book for young adults on the controversial question of whether William of Stratford really wrote the plays generally credited to him. Hundreds of copies of this book will be distributed free of charge to attendees at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) convention in DC in November 2019, as a way of encouraging teachers to use it in their classrooms.

A Question of Will follows Perin Willoughby ("Willow"), a feisty, fast-talking teenaged girl, who magically travels back in time to Elizabethan England and snags an actor's job at a theatre. But she has to masquerade as a boy to keep from being thrown out on the street. Meanwhile, she finds herself transporting manuscripts from a mysterious nobleman to a drunken actor named Will Shakspere. What is going on here? Guaranteed to entertain Shakespeare fans, both old and new.

The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship seeks to raise $2,200 to distribute copies of A Question of Will at the NCTE convention.