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My Shakespeare: The Authorship Controversy, EPUB eBook

My Shakespeare: The Authorship Controversy EPUB

Edited by Professor William Leahy

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Who really wrote the Shakespeare plays? This important literary and cultural controversy is livelier and more widely discussed than ever before.

Here, nine leading experts offer their version of who wrote the plays.

Why does this issue matter? Because a full understanding of the author can make a huge difference to our wider appreciation of the life and times, the literature, and the culture of the period.

William Shakespeare is universally regarded as the greatest writer who ever lived.

He remains a man who seems to have understood humanity so well but whose life as a writer is absent in records of the time.

This truth has led to many questions about the real author behind the title-pages, the real nature of Shakespeare the man, and how this nature relates to Shakespeare the writer.

In new essays especially written for this book nine leading 'Shakespearean' authors present their version of the man.

Ros Barber, Barry Clarke, John Casson with William Rubinstein & David Ewald, William Leahy, Alan H.

Nelson, Diana Price, Alexander Waugh and Robin Williams each offer their ideas.

Each essay is founded in scholarly research and provides a positive case for why the Shakespeare Authorship Controversy needs to be taken seriously.

These versions of Shakespeare are realistic and compelling.

Each in its turn will provoke the reader to see various aspects of Shakespeare in a different light. And they will help us understand the enigmatic fascination that Shakespeare (and the authorship question) continues to generate.

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