''I, Billy Shakespeare'' is a 1965 comedic book by

William Peter Blatty William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel ''The Exorcist (novel), The Exorcist'' and for his screenplay for The Exorcist, the 1973 film adaptat ...

Synopsis

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

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

Reception

S. T. Joshi Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958) is an American literary critic whose work has largely focused on weird and fantastic fiction, especially the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers. Career His literary critic ...

noted that the book "achieved little or no critical and commercial success".The Modern Weird Tale
by S.T. Joshi; published 2015 by McFarland and Company ''

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'' considered it "abject" and lacking in plot, and observed that despite some "amusing truth(s)", Blatty "had no gift for epithets or spleen".I, BILLY SHAKESPEARE!
reviewed at ''

''; first published November 12, 1965; retrieved September 11, 2019

References

1965 books Works about William Shakespeare {{comedy-book-stub