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

Synopsis

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

Reception

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noted that the book "achieved little or no critical and commercial success".The Modern Weird Tale
by

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; published 2015 by

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

References

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