DiscoveringShakespeare.com This is the latest contribution to the controversy over “ who wrote Shakespeare’s plays?” The ‘Handbook for Heretics’ offers a decisive argument for an alternative Author. The material used is largely unfamiliar and provides some startling insights into the groundwork of the author’s creativity. It is essential reading for those readers curious enough to look beyond the usual Stratford myths. It turns out, upon examination, that the sources of the plays have nothing to do with William of Stratford - but a great deal to do with the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford. Edward Holmes has made a detailed case for the heretical alternative. His work derives from the text. He rejects romantic theorising on Hollywood lines, and demonstrates that the greatest writer in English was neither a working lad making good nor a model nobleman with a natural genius. The author proves to be a deeply-flawed and enigmatically complex character. “Discovering Shakespeare” is a witty compendium of data designed to clarify some of the mysteries of Shakespeare’s meaning. It will prove to be essential reading for lovers of his work. A great deal of what happens in Shakespeare actually happened. His work is based on the life of his time, and we can here trace contemporary people and events. Edward Holmes has assembled unfamiliar evidence and developed new lines of argument in a book designed to provide a further challenge to the establishment on this longstanding and sensitive issue of the authorship. Distributor "Discovering Shakespeare" A Handbook for Heretics By Edward Holmes Softback: ISBN 0 - 9540719 - 1 - 3 = £14 Hardback: ISBN 0 - 9540719 - 0 - 5 = £25 Published by Mycroft Books. The book is available from Amazon.co.uk Amazon.co.uk Direct from Mycroft Books Mr D.M. Lowish and Miss M.V.F. Holmes, 59, Lambs Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3NB