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I, Billy Shakespeare

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I, Billy Shakespeare
First edition
AuthorWilliam Peter Blatty
LanguageEnglish
GenreSatire, comedy
Published1965
PublisherDoubleday
Publication placeUSA
Pages89
ISBN1135736391

I, Billy Shakespeare is a 1965 comedic book by William Peter Blatty.

Synopsis

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William Shakespeare's ghost angrily denounces suggestions that he did not write the works attributed to him.

Reception

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S. T. Joshi noted that the book "achieved little or no critical and commercial success".[1] Kirkus Reviews considered it "abject" and lacking in plot, and observed that despite some "amusing truth(s)", Blatty "had no gift for epithets or spleen".[2]

References

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  1. ^ The Modern Weird Tale, by S.T. Joshi; published 2015 by McFarland and Company
  2. ^ I, BILLY SHAKESPEARE!, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; first published November 12, 1965; retrieved September 11, 2019