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The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question
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The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question

Author: Scott McCrea
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
McCrea, Scott.
Case for Shakespeare.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005
(OCoLC)607349790
Named Person: William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Scott McCrea
ISBN: 027598527X 9780275985271
OCLC Number: 56065174
Description: xiv, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Scott McCrea.

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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.  Read more...
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"[This volume] is not only compellingly written but it also has an inviting, conversational tone that I found both appealing and suspenseful, convincing as scholarship and at the same time Read more...

 
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