The Shakespeare author controversy is virtually a sub-genre and a pseudonymous Craig Janacek has even written a thriller of sorts that goes so far as murder in the war between Stratfordians and Oxfordians. I say "of sorts" because the novel is somewhat pedestrian in style and plotting. The summation of the controversy is entertaining but the dialogue tends to be too expository and the characters so far seem cut out of cardboard merely to introduce the controversy to fiction readers. I may yet be surprised and I'm not even sure yet whether Janacek is a convinced Oxfordian or simply setting them up for a fall. The title, after all, is ambiguous.
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