Fill in the Blanks Book Blurbs 19Online version Book Blurbs by Michael Riccioli 1 death to mystery works retraces path Since written been figures of For questioned documents research Contested Will Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro Faber 2010 two centuries after Shakespeare's , no one thought argue that someone else had his plays . then dozens candidates , including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford , have proposed . Combining scrupulous with a close reading of Shakespeare's , this absorbing book a tortuous strewn with fabricated to unravel the of why so many people - including such eminent as Henry James and Sigmund Freud - have his authorship .