Michael K. Brame

if you don't take a certain very sick delight in reading Chomsky on linguistics, then you will find this book looney. If you can plod into the deep linguistic congruences, this book can blow your mind. The author studied under Chomsky, and his detailed scientific detective work show this. I'm halfway through and am enjoying it a great deal.

The pseudo-editors of this edition of Gascoigne's best regarded prose work fantasize that it was really written by the 17th Earl of Oxenford, whom they credit with the complete works of Shakespeare and most other Elizabethan literature. For an overview of their thesis, see http://stromata.tripod.com/id408.htm. I haven't rated this book, because Gascoigne deserves four stars and Brame/Popova none.

One of the looniest anti-Stratfordian tomes ever written, made more outlandish by the fact that the authors hold academic positions at a legitimate university. They argue that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxenford wrote not just the works of Shakespeare but all other Elizabethan literature: Marlowe, Spenser, Sidney, Lyly, Peele et al. My review is at http://stromata.tripod.com/id408.htm