Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might…
Specifikacia Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Writers and thinkers who've considered the evidence--from Walt Whitman to Sigmund Freud to Supreme Court justices--have long suspected some else behind plays such as Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. And while Shakespeare professors admit that the Bard's biography is a "black hole," to doubt the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) "immoral"--a sordid conspiracy theory. Fascinated by this taboo topic as much as by the mystery, journalist and literary critic