From prize-winning author James Shapiro comes this riveting investigation into whether someone else wrote William Shakespeare’s plays.
For 200 years after Shakespeare's death, no one argued that somebody else had written his plays. Since then, dozens of rival candidates – including Sir Francis Bacon – have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
This book has been heavily praised. The Sunday Times said it’s “authoritative, lucid and devastatingly funny, and its brief concluding statement of the case for Shakespeare is masterly.” The Financial Times called it “a terrific read.”

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"Shapiro sprinkles his text with glinting, steely facts ... Riveting." – The Guardian newspaper