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Article: SHAKESPEARE'S GENIUS THE KEY TO THE MYSTERY.(AT HOME)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 19, 1997
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Byline: Robert McCrum London Observer Service
Ask the question ''Who wrote the plays of William Shakespeare?'' and you get two kinds of answers - the sane and the mad. Both, in their quite different ways, are highly absorbing.
Whatever most of us feel about the dramatist's place in literary history, the mad comedy of the authorship question is far from dead.
Over the centuries, various ingenious attempts have been made to prove that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare. The first Baconian, a dotty old party named Delia Bacon, actually attempted to dig up Shakespeare's bones in the hope of proving her namesake's title to the works.
Perhaps ...