Abstract

Despite the existence of a vast literature reflecting hundreds of years of scholarship questioning the authorship of the works of Shakespere, the conventional Library of Congress Name Authority File and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are unable to accurately describe this literature owing to their assumption that the author was William Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon. Adopting a pragmatic, philosophically realist perspective based in social epistemology, this article highlights past and current deficiencies in the authority records concerning Shakespere and proposes changes that would better reflect the nature and purpose of this literature, as well as the historic signifiers of the named persons in question.

摘要

尽管存在大量文献反映了数百年来对莎士比亚作品作者身份的学术质疑，但传统的国会图书馆名称权威文件和国会图书馆主题词表 (LCSH) 无法准确描述这些文献，因为他们假设作者是埃文河畔斯特拉特福的威廉莎士比亚。本文采用基于社会认识论的务实的、哲学现实主义的观点，强调了有关莎士比亚的权威记录中过去和当前的不足，并提出了能够更好地反映这部文学作品的性质和目的以及命名人物的历史意义的修改有问题。