Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint Jill H. Casid An irritatingly appealing threat

An irritatingly appealing threat

Nowhere draws from Appalachian folklore to caution us that true terror is what we bury in our own hearts

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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint Jill H. Casid An irritatingly appealing threat*Winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Life Writing* "A wickedly entertaining" (The New York Times) detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Following his divorce, down and out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell prey to a decades long obsession with Shakespearian portraiture. It began