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Article: 'Twixt much ado, group brings Shakespeare theories to Twin Cities.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 9, 1996
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Some say the 17th Earl of Oxford, who could have placed himself in the minds of royalty, penned such masterpieces as "Hamlet." Shakespeare supporters say such thinking is elitist and that genius knows no cultural or economic bounds.
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The tempest over who really wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare blows into Bloomington this week.
At the Hotel Sofitel, some 150 members of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (SOS) and their guests will gather to further propagate the belief that it was nobleman Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford - and not the glovemaker's son from Stratford-on-Avon - who wrote all those plays and ...