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Rethinking Shakespeare.(William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)(Cover story)

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From: Queen's Quarterly
Date: 20080622
Author:Posner, Michael

All great truths begin as blasphemies

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Let's start with a not-so-trivial trivia question: apart from the fact that they were all venerable, intelligent men, what did Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, Henry and William James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Galsworthy, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Mark Twain, Orson Welles, and Walt Whitman have in common? The answer may surprise: not one of them believed that William Shakespeare, a mere country boy from Stratford-upon-Avon, could possibly have written the works attributed to him.

THEIR REASONS were diverse, but ...

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