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SHAKESPEARE WAS INDEED SHAKESPEARE: HER BONES TELL HER SO

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030102
Author:Tina Packer

What I love most about the controversy over who wrote William Shakespeare's plays is that there are so many contenders: the Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Rutland, Sir Walter Raleigh, Elizabeth I, and Christopher Marlowe - the latter being the prime subject of the "Frontline" documentary "Much Ado About Something" that airs tonight.

Malcolm X, from his prison cell, even weighed in and suggested King James I.

There are certain themes every camp has in common, most notably that the William Shakespeare whose name appeared on the title pages of some of the printed ...

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