For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. b,br,br,Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author.,Contested Will i,unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays (among them such leading writers and artists as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, and Sir Derek Jacobi).
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Publisher : Faber & Faber; Main edition (6 January 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0571235778
ISBN-13 : 978-0571235773
Item Weight : 1 kg 50 g
Dimensions : 13 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm
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