The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare. This item is unavailable.The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

Draws on new evidence about the mysterious 1603 Tower Notebook to explore a controversial theory about Shakespeare's identity as Sir Henry Neville, a little-known Elizabethan politician who was interred in the Tower of London, theorizing that he indulged his playwriting activities by hiding behind a Stratford actor. 25,000 first printing.

‘Remarkable, intriguing, and provocative...It may prove to be a landmark book of genuine world-wide importance.’

Professor John Spiers, University of Glamorgan

‘This is a pioneering book. I can’t imagine that any scholar or student, actor or enthusiast of Shakespeare will be able to ignore it. I for one welcome and celebrate this book not only for its discoveries and clear style of expression, but for the wonderful partnership of a University professor and an independent scholar which gave it birth.’

Mark Rylance, Actor, Artistic Director Shakespeare’s Globe 1996-2005 and Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust

‘Till now, where Shakespeare authorship is concerned, I have always been a sceptic; it seemed to me attributing Shakespeare to anyone else, one had to make a good case for him not to be the actor from Stratford.

This book has convinced me that whoever wrote the plays, it was not the Stratford man and the case for Sir Henry Neville is by far the strongest I have as yet encountered.’

John Julius Norwich, Author, Scholar and Broadcaster