A review by berlinbibliophile
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro

4.0

I've wanted to reread this book for the longest time, and I was absolutely right to do so. This is, of course, not an academic work, but it explains the different positions of the authorship question well, and Shapiro never descends to name calling, even if some things he describes are clearly ridiculous, like the Prince Tudor theory. I also really appreciate that he goes over the case for Shakespeare rather than just the cases against the other theories. I am more convinced of my Stratfordian beliefs than ever.