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Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review
'A startling and brave book which advances another author for Shakespeare's works - Sir Henry Neville, a well-educated nobleman who spent four years travelling Europe, and thus was familiar with the background of many of the plays.'
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Brenda James has pursued a life-long interest in Shakespeare and gained a First Class Honours degree in Cultural Studies from PortsmouthUniversity.
Professor William Rubinstein is Professor of Modern History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has published widely on many aspects of modern history.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Like the sheep in George Orwell's "Animal Farm", I always find myself agreeing with the author I am reading because, like all the others, he/she seems to have a wealth of supporting evidence rooted in this newly discovered document or that recently researched document.
I am now a firm believer in the connections between Shakespeare's works and the life of Sir Henry Neville. How could we have imagined it could have been anyone else? The Professor has done an excellent job of discovering, garnering, assembling and writing about this wealth of new material in a most enjoyable book.
I am convinced, until the next ground-breaking revelations appear. It is astonishing how this one/two/group of writer(s) produced over thirty plays which have entertained audiences for centuries and created one of the greatest "who dun 'em" in history.
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I am now a firm believer in the connections between Shakespeare's works and the life of Sir Henry Neville. How could we have imagined it could have been anyone else? The Professor has done an excellent job of discovering, garnering, assembling and writing about this wealth of new material in a most enjoyable book.
I am convinced, until the next ground-breaking revelations appear. It is astonishing how this one/two/group of writer(s) produced over thirty plays which have entertained audiences for centuries and created one of the greatest "who dun 'em" in history.
Recommended
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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"The Truth Will Out" strikes me as a brilliant piece of work. The authors' main line of argument, as I understand it, is that the accepted dating and chronology of Shakespeare's works is valid, but simply can't be matched with the accepted facts of Shakespeare's life. In contrast, the facts of Neville's life match perfectly and explain why Shakespeare's works were written as they were. James and Rubinstein also claim to have found documents which support their case. "Stratfordian" supporters of the normal view that Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him will simply not be able to dismiss this book as yet another work by loonies. I predict a fiery debate!
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I saw a big piece about this book in The Sunday Times and thought it sounded fascinating, largely because 'established scholars' were obviously rubbishing it. So I bought the book and was amazed to discover that there does indeed seem to be a genuine mystery about William shakespeare and the lack of any hard evidence relating to his life and work. I'm no scholar myself and have no preconceived ideas. The authors of this book do set out a very convincing case as to why we should doubt the identity of the chap from Stratford, which was news to me and so very intriguing. They suggest that senior diplomat and courtier Sir Henry Neville has the strongest claim to date to be the true author. All I can conclude is that based on the evidence presented in the book, I tend to agree with them. I suspect it's time to sell property in Stratford and buy in Bilingsbear. According to the newspaper report the author Peter Ackroyd didn't even want to read this book because he is so certain that there is no issue, but of course he'd just written a book about Shakespeare himself, so was perhaps defending his own corner. I've given it 5 out of 5 because it's a really good story, and very well written.
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Published on 3 Jun 2006 by Liesel Knightley
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Great story - shame about the book
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