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SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN AND OTHER HERESIES

by Elizabeth Winkler (Simon & Schuster, $55 hb)

The subtitle of Elizabeth Winkler’s witty, illuminating and possibly scandalous – depending on where you sit – book on a man who has been called Britain’s greatest export runs: “How doubting the Bard became the biggest taboo in literature.”

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