Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006083417X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Warning: Filled with blatant inaccuracies If you're really interested in the Shakespeare authorship question, this is a terrible book to start with. Fields seems to have simply taken claims that he found in various anti-Stratfordian works and organized them into something like a narrative, though it's difficult to tell, because he provides no bibliography and only rarely . Not an Authorship book, a meta-Authorship book Andrew Schechter This is not the right book for someone new to the Authorship debate to pick up. It isn't really an Authorship book at all, but a meta-Authorship book. Fields has evidently read many of the available books on the subject and seems to have written this book in order to present his own, detailed collaboration theory. But first, fancy. May Be Flawed But At Least Fair to Both Sides classicalsteve The two issues of The Shakespeare Mystery are: 1. who wrote the plays, sonnets and poems attributed to a "William Shakespeare" in the late 1500's and 2. the fervent almost-religious zealousness of those on the extreme ends of the spectrum to completely discredit, humiliate and vilify the opposing side, which does nothing to furthe
“With lawyerly deliberation Fields argues a persuasive case.” (Peter Bart, Variety)
Bertram Fields is widely regarded as the most prominent entertainment lawyer in America. The author of Royal Blood, which was named Ricardian Book of the Year by the Ricardian Society, and two novels under a pseudonym, he lives in Los Angeles.
For centuries scholars have debated the true identity of the author of the magnificent body of poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare, the actor and co-owner of a successful theater company who hailed from Stratford-upon-Avon. Could there have been a single man in the English theater with such breadth and range of knowledge, a man who knew Latin and Greek, the etiquette and practices of nobility, the workings of the law, and the tactics of the military and navy? Or -- as Fields asks in his tantalizing conclusion -- was this not one man at all, but a magnificent collaboration between two very different men, a partnership born in the roiling culture of Elizabethan England, and protected for centuries by the greatest conspiracy in literary history?Blending biography and historical investigation with vibrant scholarship and storytelling, Players revolutionizes our understanding of the greatest writer -- or writers -- in our history.. And yet many credible voices -- Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Walt Whitman, to name a few -- have challenged conventional wisdom, proposing alternative candidat