Sexual Shakespeare
Sexual Shakespeare

Author: Michael Keevak

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780814329757

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Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history.

The Shakespeare Controversy
The Shakespeare Controversy

Author: Warren Hope

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0786439173

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Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for more than 200 years; some theories have been ridiculed and reviled while some have gained growing popular and scholarly support. The history of the Shakespeare controversy is presented in this revised edition of the 1992 work, with much new information and three additional chapters. Part I documents and critically assesses the most important theories on the authorship question. Part II is an annotated bibliography, arranged chronologically, of the many works that deal with the controversy from its vague beginnings to the present.

Contested Will
Contested Will

Author: James Shapiro

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-04-19

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1416541632

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

The Case for Shakespeare
The Case for Shakespeare

Author: Scott McCrea

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2005-01-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Demonstrates that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon really did write the plays and poems attributed to him via a literary forensics case that puts all other authorship theories to rest.