One of the central assumptions of established Shakespeare scholarship has been that the playwright produced flawless work needing no revision--that if a text wa

The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakes

The Shakespeare Authorship Question has been the subject of heated debate for generations. This concise introduction to the controversy challenges the conventio

This erudite and entertaining work of literary detection sets out to solve the most puzzling mystery in all of literary history: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.