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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
2.0
SHAKESPEARE CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS.
The 2 stars given here is definitely more a reflection on my tastes than the quality of the work. I read a Bill Bryson book about Shakespeare that I enjoyed and decided to pursue the subject a little further. This book is obviously a step up in complexity and addresses the authorship question, which I mostly don't care about but now I know many great figures out of history were weirdly fixated on. About 200 pages in I was more interested by the author's "Case for Shakespeare" than the preceding focus on various persons who have convinced themselves and others that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays.
Well researched & presented but not for everyone; had I a passion for Shakespeare this could just had easily have been 5 stars.
The 2 stars given here is definitely more a reflection on my tastes than the quality of the work. I read a Bill Bryson book about Shakespeare that I enjoyed and decided to pursue the subject a little further. This book is obviously a step up in complexity and addresses the authorship question, which I mostly don't care about but now I know many great figures out of history were weirdly fixated on. About 200 pages in I was more interested by the author's "Case for Shakespeare" than the preceding focus on various persons who have convinced themselves and others that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays.
Well researched & presented but not for everyone; had I a passion for Shakespeare this could just had easily have been 5 stars.