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Reprinted from 1st pbk. ed., published in 1999. Originally published in hardcover in 1996.

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakes

This ebook is an excerpt from Contested Will by James Shapiro, and originally appeared as the last section titled "Shakespeare." In this chapter, Shapiro succin

It successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entreprene