Amazon.com description: Product Description: Did William Shakspere from Stratford write the plays and poetry credited to Shakespeare? This has been a contentious literary topic for over a century. Most experts heatedly deny there is any problem. Stanley Wells, former Chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for 20 years and a world-recognized Shakespeare expert says, “I have never seen the slightest reason to doubt his authorship.” THE SHAKESPEARE FRAUD sees plenty of reasons and constructs a fascinating and absorbing story of a different author showing, from cradle to grave, how and why Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, became Shakespeare. It’s a backstage story of dynastic political intrigue at the highest levels of Queen Elizabeth’s government, which drastically revises the involvement of the glove maker’s son from Stratford.