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A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.

The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject…

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1 author picked Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I loved this book because it totally changed my view of Shakespeare. In fact I can no longer read or see a Shakespeare play or read a Shakespeare biography without thinking that the plays and sonnets were NOT written by the Bard of Avon, but rather by a mysterious author or group of authors, some of whom were likely women, all of whom for various reasons did not want to make their names public. The need to purchase another's name and even biography was common for female writers up until modern times, and could have also applied to some of…

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