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Who Wrote Shakespeare? - John Michell

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

By: John Michell

Paperback | 17 July 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Was the most famous poet and writer of all time a fraud and a plagiarist? Was Shakespeare the "upstart crow" described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Jonson's "Poet-Ape" who patched plays together from others' work? These questions have been debated ever since the eighteenth century, when the writing styles of Marlowe and other playwrights were discerned in such plays as Titus Andronicus. The orthodox view is that the author of the works of Shakespeare was, of course, the actor and businessman of Statford-upon-Avon. But the known facts about this man are surprisingly meager and contrast puzzlingly with the learned, courtly philosopher revealed in the sonnets and plays--the universal genius and supreme stylist. John Michell's witty investigation of the theories and claims reads like a series of detective stories. By the end of the book even the most faithful disciples of the Bard will find themselves asking, "Who Wrote Shakespeare?"
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'The only honest answer that can be given to someone who wants to know who wrote Shakespeare is that it is a perfect mystery... ' So the author concludes, having examined the arguments in favour of Bacon, the Earls of Oxford, Derby and Rutland, Christopher Marlowe, a number of other pretenders including Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, and of course the case for William Shakespeare or Shadspere or Shaksper or Shaxberd - whoever he was. He explores the subject thoroughly, from the puzzling silence of the playwright's contemporaries on the subject of England's finest author, to the most convincing and the most obscure hints and suggestions, in and out of anagram and acrostic, that he was really someone other than the man from Stratford. By a long way the most fascinating of recent books on Shakespeare. (Kirkus UK)

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