"Contesting Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?" Short Interview of James Shapiro

Julia Keller supplies a quick e-mail interview of James Shapiro, author of new book "Contesting Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?" Key idea: "My interest is not about proving what people think.. so much as why they think it. Keller: "His book tells the story of the people who refuse to believe the obvious -- that Shakespeare was Shakespeare -- and what this deathless skepticism revesals about our changing notions of authorship, creativity and the extent to which written works are imbued with autobiography." Article here. I'll use it in my freshman English class now that we're reading Romeo and Juliet as a modern connection.