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Contested Will - Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by James Shapiro
RM22.16 MYR RM15.48 MYR 30% off
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Mystery: Unraveling Shakespeare's Authorship Debate.

This book is an interesting take on the controversy surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's work. It thoroughly examines different hypotheses and arguments put forth by many critics over the years. Shapiro also helps readers understand why Shakespeare's authorship is questioned and how this debate has reflected the fundamental questions about literature's power to imitate life and the inspiration behind it. This book would be a perfect read for Shakespeare enthusiasts who are intrigued by mysteries and love to unravel literary puzzles.

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Contested Will - Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by James Shapiro
RM22.16 MYR RM15.48 MYR 30% off
ISBN: 9781416541622
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: RM119.09 MYR
Authors: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date of Publication: 2010-04-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Historical, Biography
Goodreads rating: 4.03
(rated by 1673 readers)

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For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete with forgeries, deception, false claimants, ciphers and codes, conspiracy theories—and a stunning failure to grasp the power of the imagination. As Contested Will makes clear, much more than proper attribution of Shakespeare’s plays is at stake in this authorship controversy. Underlying the arguments over whether Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, or the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays are fundamental questions about literary genius, specifically about the relationship of life and art. Are the plays (and poems) of Shakespeare a sort of hidden autobiography? Do Hamlet, Macbeth, and the other great plays somehow reveal who wrote them?Shapiro is the first Shakespeare scholar to examine the authorship controversy and its history in this way, explaining what it means, why it matters, and how it has persisted despite abundant evidence that William Shakespeare of Stratford wrote the plays attributed to him. This is a brilliant historical investigation that will delight anyone interested in Shakespeare and the literary imagination.
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