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Interred with Their Bones

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I’m in the middle of reading Interred with Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell and it has me re-interested in the potential mystery of who wrote Shakespeare, if in fact he did not write the play himself. Some say he was simply a base actor, or possibly not real at all. There are theories that name over a dozen different men and women as the “real” authors of the Shakespeare plays and sonnets – including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.

I suppose I like to think it is a simple case. That William Shakespeare did indeed write the body of work attributed to him and all of the doubt surrounding the authorship is only due to the fact that we do not have much of a paper trail 400 years later.

The concept of the missing Shakespeare play Cardenio pops up in modern literature more than you might think. If you have read Jasper Fforde’s Lost in a Good Book, you will have been at least marginally introduced to the topic.

All in all, I am in the mood for research once again.

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