{"product_id":"contested-will-james-shapiro","title":"Contested Will — James Shapiro","description":"\u003cp\u003eShapiro examines not Shakespeare's plays but the question of who wrote them — tracing the history of the authorship controversy from its origins in the nineteenth century and analysing why the question has proved so persistent. The book is less a defence of Shakespeare's authorship than a history of the doubters and their motivations: what it reveals about Romantic notions of literary genius, about the need to project biographical experience into works of art, and about the peculiar difficulty of knowing anything about a man who left so little personal record behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003e'Brilliant and fascinating — a history of a historical question that illuminates the entire culture of authorship.' — \u003cem\u003eJames Wood, The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e. 'Shapiro writes with wit and precision about one of literature's most intractable debates.' — \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529597767,"sku":null,"price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_b4e943c9-7813-4e7d-ae55-b8d50faec941.jpg?v=1776627855","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/contested-will-james-shapiro","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}