{"product_id":"who-wrote-shakespeares-plays-9781445601908","title":"Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor over 150 years many intelligent  highly educated men and women have questioned whether William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him. From an obscure family in a small provincial town  Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is  in other words  a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeares background and his achievements as the greatest and most famous writer in the English language. Over the years  numerous candidates have been proposed as the true author. Often dismissed by the orthodox Shakespeare establishment in Britain and America as crackpots  the Anti-Stratfordians  as they are known  have become increasingly visible and numerous during the past thirty years. Who Wrote Shakespeares Plays? provides a clear  objective guide to the Shakespeare authorship question by examining all of the candidates  including William Shakespeare himself. It is the first book to examine in an objective way the strengths and deficiencies of the arguments for each potential Shakespeare: Edward de Vere  17th Earl of Oxford; Sir Francis Bacon; Christopher Marlowe; William Stanley  6th Earl of Derby; Roger Manners  5th Earl of Rutland; Mary Sidney; Sir Henry Neville. William Rubinstein goes on to consider William Shakespeare himself in the same objective fashion. This book is a fascinating  comprehensive  and up-to-date look at one of historys greatest mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923670302773,"sku":"ByrdShop_1445601907","price":248.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781445601908.jpg?v=1794111106","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/who-wrote-shakespeares-plays-9781445601908","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}