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Contested
Will
Who
Wrote
Shakespeare
?
by
James
Shapiro
Faber
2010
two
centuries
after
Shakespeare's
,
no
one
thought
argue
that
someone
else
had
his
plays
.
then
dozens
candidates
,
including
Sir
Francis
Bacon
and
the
Earl
of
Oxford
,
have
proposed
.
Combining
scrupulous
with
a
close
reading
of
Shakespeare's
,
this
absorbing
book
a
tortuous
strewn
with
fabricated
to
unravel
the
of
why
so
many
people
-
including
such
eminent
as
Henry
James
and
Sigmund
Freud
-
have
his
authorship
.