The Death of Shakespeare is a novel of historical fiction in two parts that shows how the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, with occasional help from the Bard himself. Who Doubts Shakespeare Wrote The Plays? Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sigmund Freud, John Galsworthy,...