*Completely new evidence that will rock the literary world could be one of the greatest historical discovery of recent times *This a totally new candidate for the Shakespeare authorship question no other candidate stands up to scrutiny in the way that this candidate does *Mark Rylance, artistic director of the Globe theatre, leading Shakespearian actor and Chairman of the Shakespearean Authorship Question has written the foreword to the book - his credibility and standing in the Shakespearean world will reinforce the importance of this discovery *Guaranteed PR and national press coverage *Will be advertised in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and History Today

'A startling and brave book which advances another author for Shakespeare's works - Sir Henry Neville, a well-educated nobleman who spent four years travelling Europe, and thus was familiar with the background of many of the plays.' "Joan Bridgman, Contemporary Review"

William Rubinstein is Professor of Modern History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has had a long-standing interest in the Shakespeare Authorship question and has recently been invited to become a Trustee of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust, a body set up in 1922 to provide a neutral and positive forum for interested groups and individuals to debate the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays and poems. He's published widely on many aspects of modern history and his books include Genocide (Longman, 2004), Twentieth-century Britain: A Political History (2003), Philosemitism: Admiration and Support for Jews in the English-speaking World 1840-1939 (1999). Brenda James has pursued a life-long interest in Shakespeare. She worked as a lecturer in English and Civilisation with the British European Centre where she ran specialist classes in Shakespeare studies, while also working as a part-time lecturer in English on the Portsmouth University Bachelor of Education course and researching aural history for Hampshire County Council. For the past seven years she has devoted her time to researching aspects of Shakespeare's poetry and plays, also returning to her teenage interest in cracking Elizabethan codes and ciphers and in historical calligraphy and its transcription.

1. The Shakespeare Authorship Question 2. The real Shakespeare 3. The Neville heritage 4. Becoming William Shakespeare, 1582-94 5. The road to the top, 1595-99 6. Ambassador to France, 1599-1600 7. The catastrophe, 1601-03 8. Freedom and disappointment, 1603-08 9. Towards closure: the last plays, the Sonnets and the parliamentary 'Undertaker', 1609-15 10. Life after death: the First Folio and the apotheosis of Shakespeare 11. Documentary evidence: analyses and Shakespearean parallels Appendices 1. Commendatory verses and the three suns 2. Sir Henry Neville and the Essex rebellion 3. Sir Henry Neville's voyage to France, and its double 4. A review of Shakespeare and the Founders of Liberty in America 5. Genealogical notes 6. The chronology of Shakespeare's works