{"title":"Jon Benson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-death-of-shakespeare-part-two-as-it-was-accomplisht-in-1616-and-the-causes-thereof-paperback","title":"The Death of Shakespeare Part Two: As it was accomplisht in 1616 and the causes thereof - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon appeared in London in 1590 at the age of 26 and is believed by many to have begun writing the greatest plays the world has ever seen. There is no record of his education, if he had any. His parents, wife and children may have been illiterate. He left no books. No one reported in any diary or letter that they had met him or talked to him, or even talked about him. He left six signatures, all different. Three were on his last will and testament, which makes no mention of any plays, poems or books; two were on deeds to real property; the last was on an affidavit he gave in a court case. The records show a businessman who acquired considerable property during his lifetime, hoarded grain during a famine, and engaged in a number of lawsuits, one over as little as five pounds. He was connected with the theatre and may have been an actor, but there is nothing that independently proves he was the author of the plays attributed to him. Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Derek Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and many others, including a number of United States Supreme Court justices, have all concluded that William did not write the plays. But if he didn't, who did? And if someone else was the greatest author who ever lived, why was Shakespeare given the credit? This is how it happened, and why Shakespeare paid with his life for his part in, to use the words of Henry James, \"the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575233741023,"sku":"9780997089929","price":33.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OwTSQLFhrq9780997089929.webp?v=1790373175"},{"product_id":"the-death-of-shakespeare-as-it-was-accomplisht-in-1616-and-the-causes-thereof-paperback","title":"The Death of Shakespeare: As it was accomplisht in 1616 and the causes thereof - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Death of Shakespeare \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis a novel of historical fiction in two parts that shows how the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, with occasional help from the Bard himself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho Doubts Shakespeare Wrote The Plays?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sigmund Freud, John Galsworthy, among many others. Henry James thought \"the divine William the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.\" (Visit doubtaboutwill.org for more.)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Authorship Question\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Authorship Question is centuries old. It has been given new life this year by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster's publication of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eElizabeth Winkler's book \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Death of Shakespeare \u003c\/em\u003eHas Been Well Received\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy Now?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Authorship Question is centuries old. It has been given new life this year by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster's publication of \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eElizabeth Winkler's book \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinkler's book raises provocative questions about who wrote the plays and why they were written. The Death of Shakespeare provides imaginative answers to her questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart One\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of how the Earl of Oxford wrote the poetry and plays attributed to William Shakespeare begins in Part One of \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Shakespeare. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShakespeare is murdered because he has begun confessing that he did not write them. The next chapter takes us back to 1588. The Spanish Armada has been defeated. The Earl of Oxford intends to write plays that will make England famous but Queen Elizabeth queen has other ideas. She bans him from writing plays, telling him to write poetry. Oxford, frustrated by the queen's command, agrees to help Shakespeare write a play and the two of them become partners. The queen finds out, of course, but to everyone's surprise lets Oxford continue, as long as he writes history plays and no one knows he is the author.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Two\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two continues the story of how Oxford and Elizabeth might be the parents of the Earl of Southampton. If so, the young earl could succeed Elizabeth as Henry IX, but Elizabeth denies she is his mother. Is she trying to protect Southampton from the dangers of the succession? 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