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CNN quotes Egan

Shakespeare Oxford Society journal editor Michael Egan was quoted in a CNN online review of James Shapiro's Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? : "The case for Oxford derives from the fact that almost everything we know about Shakespeare of Stratford  doesn't seem connectible to the author of the plays," he (Egan) says. "It's that gap between what we could infer about the author, and what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford , which has raised the questions." Egan said he was sorry that the author, CNN entertainment producer Todd Leopold didn't use Egan's main objection, that ". . . Contested Will  is a profoundly dishnonest book in the sense that Shapiro's book 1599 directly reads Shakespeare's life from his works." Leopold's article published today on CNN Entertainment,   "Was Shakespeare's Ghostwriter Shakespeare? ", numbers the Shakespeare authorship controversy among conspiracy theories such as r...