**Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkle**r

“In literary circles,” Winkler quickly discovered, “even the phrase ‘Shakespeare authorship question’ elicits contempt—eye-rolling, name-calling, mudslinging.” But that question has persisted, like “a massive game of Clue,” since the Renaissance, fueled by the lack of evidence that the man born in Stratford was the same man who wrote *Hamlet*. No obituary appeared after Shakespeare’s death, and he bequeathed no manuscripts, unusual for a man of letters. Furthermore, he seemed never to have traveled outside of England yet had intimate knowledge of European court life, other languages, and even ancient Greek."

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