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Article: Justices rule Bard is not to be denied
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 26, 1987
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WASHINGTON Three Supreme Court justices, stepping a bit outside
their jurisdiction, ruled Friday that William Shakespeare did indeed
write the plays for which the world has given him credit.
Justices William J. Brennan Jr., Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul
Stevens, participating in a rare moot court debate at American
University Law School, ruled against a Shakespearean contemporary -
Edward de Vere, the 17th earl of Oxford - as the likelier author of
"Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet" and "King Lear."
Controversy over who wrote Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and
poems has simmered for a century and reheated with the 1984
publication of The Mysterious William Shakespeare by Charlton Ogburn,
who ...