C. G. Estabrook
He may be, but if so, he shouldn't be. People as various as Freud, Whitman, and Mark Twain (see his "Is Shakespeare Dead?") have known that there's something wrong with the attribution to the man from Stratford. See now the quite brilliant book by Diana Price, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography. --CGE
Carrol Cox
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>"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
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>> Why do we say Shakespeare wrote the plays when it was
really someone else
>> using the name Shakespeare?
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>You are, I hope, joking?
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>Carrol
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"The Authorship Problem" rears its ugly head on LBO? Remarkable. In addition to Ms. Price's volume, John Michel's "Who Wrote Shakespeare?" is an excellent and elegant treatment of this controversy. It's all nonsense, of course: the man from Stratford wrote the plays.