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Article: Shakespeare's authorship and questions of evidence.(News)
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Note from editors. In SKEPTIC Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 70- 75, we published an article by Scott McCrea entitled "Two Shakespeares: A Skeptical Analysis of Shakespeare and His Works Reveals the Real Author." McCrea sets the stage for his analysis: "The sheer number of alternative Bards--fifty-six, by some counts--has caused many people to dismiss the Authorship Question outright. But we should remember that all visions of the True Author were spawned from the same germinal belief in the inadequacy of Shakespeare's education, if Shakespeare had gone to Cambridge, his vocabulary and knowledge of the classics would seem to be explicable, and it's safe to say there would be no ...