Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt
Author: Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107017599

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
Author: Diana Price
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

It successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.

Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare

Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare
Author: John Casson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1445654679

Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?

Contested Will

Contested Will
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2011-04-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416541632

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

Shakespeare Suppressed

Shakespeare Suppressed
Author: Katherine Chiljan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780982940556

Non-fiction research book about Shakespeare, the man and his works, based on contemporary evidence. This evidence conflicts with the orthodox view; for example, contemporary evidence shows that ?William Shakespeare? was a pen name, and that his plays were written far earlier than believed. The book also deconstructs the case of the Stratford Man as Shakespeare, and presents a theory how and why the two different identities were later confused. 2nd edition, 448 pages, footnotes, plates.

William Stanley as Shakespeare

William Stanley as Shakespeare
Author: John M. Rollett
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786496606

Presenting striking new evidence, this book shows that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby. Born in 1561, he was educated at Oxford, travelled for three years abroad, and studied law in London, mixing with poets and playwrights. In 1592 Spenser recorded that Stanley had written several plays. In 1594 he unexpectedly inherited the earldom--hence the pen name. He became a Knight of the Garter in 1601, eligible to help bear the canopy over King James at his coronation, likely prompting Sonnet 125's "Wer't ought to me I bore the canopy?"--he is the only authorship candidate ever in a position to "bear the canopy" (which was only ever borne over royalty). Love's Labour's Lost parodies an obscure poem by Stanley's tutor, which few others would have read. Hamlet's situation closely mirrors Stanley's in 1602. His name is concealed in the list of actors' names in the First Folio. His writing habits match Shakespeare's as deduced from the early printed plays. He was a patron of players who performed several times at court, and financed the troupe known as Paul's Boys. No other member of the upper class was so thoroughly immersed in the theatrical world.

Shakespeare: The Evidence

Shakespeare: The Evidence
Author: Ian Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1999-01-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312200053

This book takes on all of the famous Shakespearean debates, from whether or not Shakespeare actually wrote his plays to speculation regarding his sexuality to the mysterious curse he set upon his own grave. - Publisher.

Alias Shakespeare

Alias Shakespeare
Author: Joseph Sobran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This erudite and entertaining work of literary detection sets out to solve the most puzzling mystery in all of literary history: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Presenting his case for a swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier, Sobran vindicates a long list of prominent skeptics, among them the great Shakespearean actors, Kenneth Branagh and Sir John Gielgud. of photos & illustrations.

The Case for Shakespeare

The Case for Shakespeare
Author: Scott McCrea
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005-01-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Demonstrates that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really did write the plays and poems attributed to him via a literary forensics case that puts all other authorship theories to rest.

Shakespeare by Another Name

Shakespeare by Another Name
Author: Margo Anderson
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Total Pages: 667
Release: 2011-11-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611871786

The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).