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Re: Twain and Shakespeare
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Fri, 3 May 1996 16:49:28 -0400
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_Is Shakespeare Dead?_ is the place to look.  According to _M.T. A-Z_,
"Ostensibly an essay arguing that William Shakespeare could not have
written the plays attributed to him" (247)

I don't know anything about lectures on the subject.  Perhaps the reporter
was thinking of Twain's _Is Shakespeare Dead?_ chapter 1 statement that he
used to argue the point with steamboat pilot George Ealer. (248)

Our local PBS affiliate, in March, (on Frontline, I think) did a
who-was-really-Shakespeare piece which spent a lot of time on Twain's
theory.

Take a look in the Forum Archives for David Tomlinson's 15 Feb. 1995
review of Anthony Berret's _Mark Twain and Shakespeare_.

larry marshburne

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