{"product_id":"shakespeares-unorthodox-biography-new-evidence-of-an-authorship-problem-contributions-in-drama-and-theatre-studies-9780313312021","title":"Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the worlds greatest author  Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned whether the historical Shakespeare wrote the plays popularly attributed to him. While other books on the subject have argued that some other particular person  such as the Earl of Oxford  wrote the plays  this is the first book in over 80 years to comprehensively revisit the authorship question without an ideological bias  the first to introduce new evidence  and the first to undertake a systematic comparative analysis with other literary biographies. It successfully argues that William Shakespeare was the pen name of an aristocrat  and that William Shakespeare of Stratford was a shrewd entrepreneur  not a dramatist.  Price exposes numerous logical fallacies  contradictions  and sins of omission in the traditional accounts of Shakespeares whereabouts; his professional activities; his personality profile; the play chronology; autobiographical echoes in the plays; the dramatists education and cultural sophistication; circumstances of publication of the plays and poetry; and the testimony of his supposed literary colleagues  such as Ben Jonson. New or previously ignored documentation is used to reconstruct Shakespeares career as a businessman  investor  theater shareholder  real estate tycoon  commodity trader  money-lender  and actor  but not a writer. In fact  Shakespeare is the only alleged writer from his time for whom no contemporaneous literary paper trail survives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665832468533,"sku":"ByrdShop_0313312028","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780313312021.jpg?v=1782409209","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shakespeares-unorthodox-biography-new-evidence-of-an-authorship-problem-contributions-in-drama-and-theatre-studies-9780313312021","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}