Is Shakespeare Dead: Annotated Edition

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An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have written the works full of erudition and accurate professional jargon which are attributed to him, Mark Twain offers an eloquent and entertaining analysis of this issue of authorship, peppered with personal recollections of his own first encounters with the Bards plays on a boat on the Mississippi. Balancing humour, insight and vitriol, Is Shakespeare Dead is a provocative contribution to the tradition of Shakespeare-doubting, as well as a fine example of the great American novelists critical writing.

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The father of American literature. -- William Faulkner

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Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.