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Was the Bard a Woman? A new contender for authorship of Shakespeare's works.(Mary Sidney)

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From: Newsweek International
Date: 20040628
Author:Underwood, Anne

Byline: Anne Underwood

For more than 150 years, literary sleuths have questioned whether William Shakespeare--a man with a grammar-school education, at best--could possibly have penned some of the greatest works in the English language. "You can be born with intelligence, but you can't be born with book learning," says Mark Rylance, Shakespearean actor and artistic director of the Globe Theatre in London. But if Shakespeare didn't write the plays, who did? Dozens of candidates have been proposed, most of them men. But at a conference of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in ...

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