Review of Shapiro

Here is a history of the Shakespearean authorship question worth reading:

• The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Claimants to Authorship, and Their Champions and Detractors by Warren Hope

If you want to know how the documentary evidence for Mr. Shakspere of Stratford looks compared to that for his contemporaries, this is good:

• Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem by Diana Price

If you are reading for something a little more daring, I recommend:

• Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and His Works by K. Chiljan
• Shakespeare By Another Name by Mark K. Anderson
• I Come to Bury Shaksper by Steve Steinburg

The latest documentary on the authorship question, also very highly recommended, is:

• Last Will. & Testament directed by Lisa and Laura Wilson

FROM: 'Sloppy, Dishonest, and Prejudicial', Roger Langston's April 5, 2013 review of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (Paperback).