The Shakespearean Authorship Trust is a registered charity dedicated to advancing the question of who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

Founded on 6 November 1922, the aims of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust are: * To seek, and if possible establish, the truth concerning the authorship of Shakespeare's plays and poems. * To organise and encourage research, to promote the discussion of the authorship question and to provide means of publishing contributions to its solution. * To maintain and add to a reference library of works relating to the subject.