Shakespeare and his Betters

Shakespeare and his Betters (1958) was “the first attempt to summarize and answer the whole case against William Shakespeare of Stratford.”  William Kent reviews it in the Autumn 1958 edition of the Shakespeare Fellowship Newsletter page 9

The book’s author, R.C. Churchill, says “The title of the present work reflects the works of most unorthodox theorists to give the plays and poems commonly attributed to Shakespeare to some member or group of members of the Elizabethan nobility.”

Spoiler – he wasn’t an Oxfordian.

Also included in the newsletter is an investigation into Feste’s obscure line from Twelfth Night “The Bells of St. Bennet, sir, may put you in mind – one, two, three.”