The Shakespeare Chronicles

by James Boyle

Publisher: James Boyle

Language: English

Country: United States

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Printed: 200 pages, 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, black and white interior ink

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A novel that is part literary mystery, part historical detective story, built around an obsessive search for the true author of Shakespeare's works.

Stanley Quandary is a professor of English and a very ordinary man. But then he starts to have the strangest, most realistic dreams, dreams that seem to solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time, to expose a conspiracy of silence that is over 400 years old. They even suggest a way to win back his estranged wife. Of course, he might be going insane... .

James Boyle is a law professor at Duke University, and a columnist for the Financial Times online. His articles have also been published in The New York Times, Newsweek and the Guardian.

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Beautifully-written literary mystery

28 Nov 2006

by Robert Salvin

James Boyle's The Shakespeare Chronicles is a witty examination of Ivy League professor Stanley Quandary's crack-up as he attempts to prove the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
The college scenes ring true (unsurprisingly as Boyle is himself a professor at Duke), and Quandary's renunciation of his unfulfilled lot in life and surrender to his alter-ego, 'Q', is every bit as funny as Lester Burnham's transformation from put-upon husband to pumped-up alpha male in American Beauty.
Boyle cleverly draws the reader into the Oxford-Stratford debate through Quandary's split-personality as his world collapses in on itself, and the gradual undermining of Q's contentions as Quandary attempts to reassert himself is cleverly realised.
Highly recommended.

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