Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens].
Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.
First Edition, first printing of Mark Twain's Is Shakespeare Dead?
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909.
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First edition, first printing of Twain’s work regarding the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, without the advertisement for the Greenwood book. BAL 3509. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with two frontispiece plates statues of Shakespeare and Bacon. In near fine condition.
Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject.
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