The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question
"While gaps in the biographical record for William Shakespeare continue to confound literary scholars, McCrea here concludes that he was, indeed, the playwright and poet we have always thought him to be. This literary forensics case follows the trail of evidence in the historical record and in the plays and poems themselves. It investigates the counterclaims for other authors and the suppositions that the real author of the works must have been a soldier, a scholar, a lawyer, a courtier, and a traveler to Italy. In spirited detail, McCrea carefully takes apart the case for other authors and proves the case conclusively."--Jacket
History
xiv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780275985271, 027598527X
56065174
Two Shakespeares
The third man
The vacuum
Reasonable doubts
Lawyer's fingers
The courtier's tongue
The sonneteer
Footprints in the garden
Suspects
The accused
Motive and means
Have the body
The logjam
Grief and strife
All conspiracy theories are alike