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The Shakespeare Mask The Shakespeare Mask

by Newton Frohlich

Genre: Other7

Published: 2015

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Who wrote Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, 35 other plays,104 sonnets, and at least two long narrative poems considered to be among the greatest, if not the greatest, ever written? William Shakespeare? For over two hundred years, esteemed scholars and actors have doubted that answer for many reasons, including Will Shakespeare's lack of education and travel and the fact that he left nothing in writing except his signature.The award-winning novel THE SHAKESPEARE MASK fictionalizes a more likely authorship. It tells the fascinating story of a precocious young nobleman who draws the attention of the Elizabethan court and of the Virgin Queen herself. A writer and patron of the arts, Edward de Vere is volatile, controversial, and brilliant. He leaves a trail of women and scandal in his wake. But his plays, when he's in the queen's good graces, charm the court. His sonnets turn feelings into sound.The rules of the court, however, say a nobleman may not publish. An earl's...

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