Is Shakespeare Dead?

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'If Shakespeare was possessed of the infinitely divided stardust that constituted this vast wealth, how did he get it, and where, and when?' 'If Shakespeare was possessed of the infinitely divided stardust that constituted this vast wealth, how did he get it, and where, and when?'
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 Bard's 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 novelist's critical writing.