The Beard of Avon

Intellectual property? Fie on that! Who do you think wrote or co-wrote the plays we attribute to William Shakespeare? Mark Twain voted for Francis Bacon. Woody Allen leans toward Christopher Marlowe. Shakespeare’s folio simply remains one of the great, gorgeous crop circle mysteries of our language. Amy Freed knocks about Stratford upon Avon some 400 years ago, with a ghost-writing Will who is both sweetly comic and oddly plausible.