{"product_id":"the-apocryphal-william-shakespeare-book-one-of-a-third-way-shakespeare-authorship-scenario-9781457507212","title":"The Apocryphal William Shakespeare: Book One of A 'Third Way' Shakespeare Authorship Scenario","description":"\u003cp\u003eSabrina Feldman manages the Planetary Science Instrument Development Office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Born and raised in Riverside  California  she attended college and graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley  where she enjoyed the wonderful performances of the Berkeley Shakespeare Company  studied Shakespeares works for a semester with Professor Stephen Booth  and received a Ph.D. in experimental physics in 1996. She has worked on many different instrument development projects for NASA  and is the former deputy director of JPLs Center for Life Detection. Her scientific training  combined with a lifelong love of literature and all things Shakespearean  gives her a unique perspective on the Shakespeare authorship mystery. Dr. Feldman lives in Pasadena  California with her husband and two children. This is her first book.  If William Shakespeare wrote the Bards works... Who wrote the Shakespeare Apocrypha?  During his lifetime and for many years afterwards  William Shakespeare was credited with writing not only the Bards canonical works  but also a series of apocryphal Shakespeare plays. Stylistic threads linking these lesser works suggest they shared a common author or co-author who wrote in a coarse  breezy style  and created very funny clown scenes. He was also prone to pilfering lines from other dramatists  consistent with Robert Greenes 1592 attack on William Shakespeare as an \"upstart crow.\" The anomalous existence of two bodies of work exhibiting distinct poetic voices printed under one mans name suggests a fascinating possibility. Could William Shakespeare have written the apocryphal plays while serving as a front man for the poet in purple robes  a hidden court poet who was much admired by a literary coterie in the 1590s? And could the poet in purple robes have been the great poet and statesman Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)  a previously overlooked authorship candidate who is an excellent fit to the Shakespearean glass slipper? Both of these scenarios are well supported by literary and historical records  many of which have not been previously considered in the context of the Shakespeare authorship debate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792313278517,"sku":"ByrdShop_1457507218","price":334.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781457507212.jpg?v=1784747121","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-apocryphal-william-shakespeare-book-one-of-a-third-way-shakespeare-authorship-scenario-9781457507212","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}