最近看到三本书——《莎士比亚其人》(卡尔文·哥夫门著),《莎士比亚的魔术小组》(A·J·伊文斯著),《莎士比亚是个秘密》(乔治·爱里奥·施维特著)。这三本书专门论证:威廉·莎士比亚并不是莎士比亚戏剧的作者,他不是一个写出天才作品的伟大剧作家,而是一个剥窃别人荣誉的普通演员。这种说法本来并不新奇,半个世纪前就曾特别盛行过,但是在这半个世纪内科学的莎学已经令人信服地把它驳倒了。虽然如此,现在这三本新著作仍然复持此论,每个作者对于莎士比亚戏剧的真正作者究竟是谁这个问 Recently read three books, The Shakespearean (Calvin Goffman), The Shakespearean Magic Group (AJ Jaws), Shakespeare is a Secret (George Eliot Schwartz). These three books special proof: William Shakespeare is not the author of Shakespeare plays, he is not a dramatist who wrote a genius work, but an ordinary act of stealing someone else’s honor. This statement was not new at all. It had been particularly prevalent half a century ago, but in the half-century the Shakespeare has convincingly refuted it. Nonetheless, the three new books are still on the table, each author asking who the true author of Shakespeare’s plays is