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Review of James Shapiro’s “Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare”
James Shapiro asks why people began to question the authorship of the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare. Shapiro’s search for the source of this controversy retraces a path littered with forgery, deception, and a failure to grasp – or imagine – the boundless extent of the power of the human imagination. Continue reading
The “Anti-Stratfordian” Double Standard
In 2006 another name was added to the list of fellows who were supposedly “the real Shakespeare” and another couple of authors were added to the ignominous bibliography of “anti-Stratfordian” crackpots. Common to all “anti-Stratfordian” hypotheses is the “double standard”, as David Kathman explains in his demolition of the claim that “Neville-was-Shakespeare”. Continue reading
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