The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated for centuries. This historical work investigates th

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

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

The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of W