Books: Whodunit?

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No orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief—that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing—that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every type, decade and nationality, is a chagrined refusal to have any truck with a man who never went through college.