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The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question

Title: The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question / Scott McCrea.
Author: McCrea, Scott.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.

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Description

xiv, 280 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"While gaps in the biographical record for William Shakespeare continue to confound literary scholars, McCrea here concludes that he was, indeed, the playwright and poet we have always thought him to be. This literary forensics case follows the trail of evidence in the historical record and in the plays and poems themselves. It investigates the counterclaims for other authors and the suppositions that the real author of the works must have been a soldier, a scholar, a lawyer, a courtier, and a traveler to Italy. In spirited detail, McCrea carefully takes apart the case for other authors and proves the case conclusively."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.

Contents

Two Shakespeares -- The third man -- The vacuum -- Reasonable doubts -- Lawyer's fingers -- The courtier's tongue -- The sonneteer -- Footprints in the garden -- Suspects -- The accused -- Motive and means -- Have the body -- The logjam -- Grief and strife -- All conspiracy theories are alike.

ISBN

027598527X
9780275985271

LCCN

2004017656

OCLC

ocm56065174
56065174
SCSB-14697756

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library