The Death of Shakespeare Part Two
Author | : Jon Benson |
Publisher | : Nedward LLC |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2022-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780997089929 |
ISBN-13 | : 099708992X |
Rating | : 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Many people have wondered how William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon could have written the plays we associate with his name. Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Derek Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and many others, have concluded that William Shakespeare did not write the plays. But if he didn't, who did? And if someone else was the greatest author who ever lived, why was Shakespeare given the credit? The Death of Shakespeare explains how this happened, and why the Bard of Avon paid with his life for his part in, to use the words of Henry James, "the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world."