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It is authoritative, lucid and devastatingly funny, and its brief concluding statement of the case for Shakespeare is masterly. <p> &#8212;John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)

Fascinating. --The New Yorker It is authoritative, lucid and devastatingly funny, and its brief concluding statement of the case for Shakespeare is masterly. --John Carey, The Sunday Times (London) James Shapiro is an erudite Shakespearean and a convincing one. . . . A bravura performance. --Saul Rosenberg, The Wall Street Journal Shapiro is an engaging and elegant guide . . . a masterful work of literary history, an empathetic chronicle of eccentricity, and a calmly reasoned vindication of 'the Stratford man.' --Kevin O'Kelly, The Boston Globe

It is authoritative, lucid and devastatingly funny, and its brief concluding statement of the case for Shakespeare is masterly. <p> --John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)

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James Shapiro is the Larry Miller Professor of English at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of several books, including 1599 and Contested Will, and is the recipient of many awards and fellowships. Shapiro is a Governor of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He lives in New York with his wife and son.

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