Literary historian Peter Moore examines Shakespeare’s greatest works within their Elizabethan setting to discover that:

* The plays were written from 1585 to 1604 and not 1590 to 1613, as commonly supposed
* The Rival Poet was Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex and the Fair Youth was Henry Wriostheley, Earl of Southampton
* Shakespeare’s share of Two Noble Kinsmen was written the last year of Elizabeth’s life—and ended with her death.
* The dramatist attacked in Ben Jonson’s ‚On Poet Ape‘ was Thomas Dekker and not William Shakespeare
* Shakespeare used the Bible’s two-witness rule involving murder in designing Hamlet’s inner dynamic
* Shakespeare adapted the Earl of Surrey’s Psalm 8 as well as Piers Plowman in writing Hamlet’s soliloquies
* Shakespeare set Christian and pagan philosophies against each other in King Lear and mediated the debate through the concept of nature
* Shakespeare used ancient and modern notions of time and Epicureanism in devising Macbeth’s structure

The Lame Storyteller, Poor and Despised publishes more than two dozen papers and monographs that originally appeared in peer reviewed journals in Europe and the United States from 1993 to 2006. It is the testament of one of the most brilliant Shakespeare scholars of his generation.

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