MOST GREATLY LIVED: A Biographical Novel of Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, whose pen name was William Shakespeare

To be or not to be -- who really asked that question? The answer to the

world's longest literary mystery may well be England's best-kept secret.

Increasingly abundant evidence strongly supports Edward de Vere as the

true genius-playwright and confirms that William Shaksper of Stratford

was illiterate and merely a pawn in a cover-up.

In Most Greatly Lived - A Biographical Novel of Edward de Vere, 17th

Earl of Oxford, Whose Pen Name Was William Shakespeare,  author Paul

Altrocchi dramatically depicts de Vere's colorful life, offering new and

exciting perspectives into the raging authorship controversy.

    Against the resplendent backdrop of England's finest era, Most

Greatly Lived elucidates the fascinating, remarkably intimate,

intertwining lives of the three leaders of England's national

emergence:  Queen Elizabeth, Lord Treasurer William Cecil, and

previously little-known Edward de Vere who was coerced to write under an

assumed name.