The Shakespeare Conspiracy

by Graham Phillips (Author), Martin Keatman (Author), Graham Phillips (Author), Martin Keatman (Author), Graham Phillips (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  The life of William Shakespeare is shrouded in mystery. There are no records of his daily life, and no one in his home town seems to have known that he was a successful London playwright while he was alive. Even the monument at his burial site - the bust of a balding man with a quill and parchment - was an 18th-century replacement. The original depicted a figure with his hands on a malt-sack, a man whose profession was not that of a writer, but of a dealer in grain. Seeking to cast off Shakespeare's cloak of secrecy, this book depicts a bizarre double life of conspiracy, treason and murder. The authors also wrote King Arthur: The True Story .

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.25

  The life of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of his having received an education, buying a book, or writing a single poem or play. There is no evidence of any one having had a conversation with him or receiving a letter from him. No one in the Warwickshire town of Stratford seems to have known that William Shakespeare was a successful London playwright while he was alive. Even the monument at his burial site - the bust of a balding man with a quill and parchment - was an 18th-century replacement. The original depicted a figure with his hands on a malt-sack; a man whose profession was not a writer, but a dealer in grain. This book seeks to cast off Shakespeare's cloak of secrecy and reveal a bizarre double life of conspiracy, treason and murder.