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Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare ?
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This book will appeal to readers interested in literary history, Shakespeare scholarship, and cultural debates surrounding authorship and biography.
From the bestselling and prizewinning author of 1599, an investigation into who wrote Shakespeare's plays.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? is James Shapiro's investigation into who wrote Shakespeare's plays, from the bestselling author of 1599.
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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 those questioning authorship were 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, bald-faced deception, and a failure to grasp what could not be imagined.
If Contested Will does not end the authorship question once and for all, it will nonetheless irrevocably change the nature of the debate by confronting what's really contested: are the plays and poems of Shakespeare autobiographical, and if so, do they hold the key to the question of who wrote them?
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ISBN: 9780571235773
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 January 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 296g
Pages: 384
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About the Author
Professor James Shapiro, who teaches at Columbia University in New York, is the author of Rival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, and Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare won the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006.
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