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Description edit
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro examines and debunks the notorious "controversy" over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
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Characters/People edit
- William Shakespeare: Add a description of this character.
- Edmond Malone
- Delia Bacon
- Henry James
- Mark Twain
- Francis Bacon
- Freud
- Helen Keller
- Ben Jonson
- Edward De Vere
- Donnelly
- Lear
- Elizabeth
- Owen
- Greenwood
- Wolf
- Steevens
- Strauss
- Leonard
- Christopher Marlowe
- Percy Allen
- Kemp
- Fletcher
- Emerson
- Congreve
- Jones
- Hawthorne
- Brandes
- Burbage
- Schmucker
- Blanton
- Titus Andronicus
- Anne
- Michael Drayton
- Garrick
- Prospero
- Walter Ralegh
- Collier
- Milton
Setting & Locations edit
- Stratford-upon-avon
- London
- New England
- Samuel Ireland
- America
- Blackfriars
- Oxford
- The Tempest
- Rutland
- Cambridge
- Britain
- Looney
- William-henry Ireland
- Shylock
- Irelands
- New Haven
- New York
- United States
- Stormfield
- Putnam
- Atlantic
- Vienna
- Wales
- Iliad
- Romeo
- Prince Tudor
- Southampton
First Sentence edit
For a long time after Shakespeare's death in 1616, anyone curious about his life had to depend on unreliable and often contradictory anecdotes, most of them supplied by people who had never met him.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James S. Shapiro (Author)
Awards edit
- Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 822.33
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