Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Author(s): James Shapiro
For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. "Contested Will" unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays (among them such leading writers and artists as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, and Sir Derek Jacobi). Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro's fascinating search for the source of this controversy retraces a path strewn with fabricated documents, calls for trials, false claimants, concealed identity and bald-faced deception.
Product Information
From the bestselling author of 1599, an investigation into who wrote Shakespeare's plays
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber
- : Faber & Faber
- : 0.295
- : 31 December 2010
- : 198mm X 127mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : James Shapiro