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North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work
Maybe someday
29
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
41/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Michael Blanding
Publisher:
Hachette Books
Date:
March 30, 2021
The true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuthâs quest to prove his theory about the source of the worldâs most famous plays, taking readers inside Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.
What The Reviewers Say
... entertaining.
...captivating.
McCarthy does not join those who have denied Shakespeare’s authorship, typically attributing the Bard’s works to Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere. However, Blanding interprets McCarthy’s views as discernibly similar. Readers not persuaded by McCarthy’s theory may still gain from his insights into how guardians of orthodoxy deal with an interloper..
Blanding recounts the odyssey of an iconoclast scholar seeking recognition in a world to which he doesn’t quite belong. Even more, though, this book is a painstaking accounting of how McCarthy arrived at his conclusions.
