Posted on 02/18/2018 12:09:16 PM PST by onedoug
For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeares writings. Now, with the help of software typically used by professors to nab cheating students, two writers have discovered an unpublished manuscript they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III, Henry V and seven other plays. The news has caused Shakespeareans to sit up and take notice.
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I wrote Shakespeare while asleep in a time machine last year.
I’ve been enjoying the audiobook version of this, highly recommend it, even to Moon landing deniers who support the Looney notion that Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare.
Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
By James Shapiro
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Contested-Will/James-Shapiro/9781416541639
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