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In Shakespeare's Shadow - A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays (Paperback)
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In Shakespeare's Shadow - A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays (Paperback)
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What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote
him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding
presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis
McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those
who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy
argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from
source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's
Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the
intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance
theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his
provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship.
Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft
a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved
playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021
International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction
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