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In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. Among the doubters have been such writers and thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, and Helen Keller. It is a fascinating story, replete with forgeries, deception, false claimants,and conspiracy theories. As Contested Will makes clear, much more than proper attribution of Shakespeare's plays is at stake in this authorship controversy.