Article: Who really wrote Brecht's plays?

Mention "the authorship question" and war immediately erupts, even if scoffers usually place the query on the level of "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" Up to now, the debate has centered on Shakespeare. Did the uneducated Will of Stratford-on-Avon really have the smarts to write 36 plays and a set of lovely sonnets? Or was "Shakespeare" a pseudonym for (among other candidates) Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford? This literary slugfest (it's become that even with scholars in its midst) has now been upstaged by well-documented accusations against none other than the German genius Bertolt Brecht, considered by many the most important playwright of the 20th century. Brecht, ...

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