_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