Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? PB Henry IV Part II From “apish bald-pated abomination” to

From “apish bald-pated abomination” to “cuckoldly dull-brained blockhead” to “obscene rump-fed hornbeast

ISBN: 9781411479739

Susan Elkin (Author)

'If music be the food of love play on'

A great quake divides our planet

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? PB Henry IV Part II From “apish bald-pated abomination” toContested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? James Shapiro (Author) For two hundred years after William Shakespeares death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays