Shakespeare in Court (Kindle Single)

“FAMOUS CHARITY TURNS DOWN THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLECT $67,000 BY EXPLAINING ITS OWN CAUSE!”

This explosive new salvo in the hard-fought war over the identity of William Shakespeare exposes the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, a registered charity from Stratford-upon-Avon, as a prime source of misinformation and subversion concerning the life and times of the World’s greatest playwright. Author and Shakespearean scholar, Alexander Waugh, provocatively accuses the Trust of “making false statements” about its tourist museums, of concealing information about Shakespeare authorship, of abusing those who challenge or contradict its “expert authority” and of having “a clear and obvious conflict of interest concerning its revenues and its representation of Shakespearean history.”

With wit, ingenuity and a profound knowledge of his subject, Waugh combines his exposé of the Birthplace Trust and those individuals driving its “Authorship Campaign,” with a dramatic courtroom cross-examination of “a typical orthodox Shakespeare pundit.” This lively scene, written in sharp, confrontational dialogue, challenges the traditional belief that Shakespeare’s works were composed by an illiterate butcher’s apprentice from the British Midlands and clearly reveals why the case for Shakespeare of Stratford, if submitted to the judicial scrutiny of any court of law, would be instantly dismissed.