Shakespeare: New Evidence [Paperback]

A. D. Wraight (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Adam Hart Pub Ltd (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1897763093
• ISBN-13: 978-1897763094
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,929,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kit Lives!, January 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Shakespeare: New Evidence (Paperback)

I had to hunt this down after catching her speak in the incredible PBS/Frontline documentary that left not a doubt in my mind as to Shakespeare's non-authorship. Unbelievable omissions: no public mourning of WS, no mention of "playwright" in his death register. All we know is he left Stratford fuctionally illiterate two years before Marlowe's "death," and returned a few decades later filthy rich. Marlowe, by the way, was "killed" by his patron's servant (convenient) only days before he was scheduled to be executed by the Church in very nasty ways, and Queen Lizzy declared no one could investigate his "murder," or his "killer's" aquittal without going before her private court. She was a big Marlowe fan. There are records of him living in Italy to the ripe old age of 63.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wholly Believable, January 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Shakespeare: New Evidence (Paperback)

This makes a very convincing case that WH was not the author of the plays and Marlowe was. Wraight very skilfully guides the reader through the new evidence.

4.0 out of 5 stars Shakespeare: pseudonym for Kit Marlowe?, June 25, 1998

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This review is from: Shakespeare: New Evidence (Paperback)

This book is a surprisingly and wholly believable alternate view of the so-called Shakespeare authorship problem. Although it is clearly an academic work which does assume at least cursory knowledge of Shakespeare's works and the authorship issue, it is easily read and quite engrossing. Wraight's thesis proposes that the true author of the "Stratfordian's" works is none other than Shakespeare's incredibly popular contemporary Christopher Marlowe. Sound Boring? To this mix add murder, court intrigue, government coverups, con men and poetic cyphers and you've got yourself something that Oliver Stone couldn't think up on his own. After all of the twisting and turning, through which Wraight quite adeptly guides the reader, one is left with a VERY convincing case- one which bears, at the very least, a second look. My only problem with the whole work is Wraight's rather shameless plugging of her other publications. It seems that her english teacher never told her not to use the word "I" in a thesis paper.