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Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare

ON SHAKESPEARE - by G.L. Horton (2/12/02)

My Letter To The Times

I am appalled that the NYTimes would publish this lunacy, and adding insult to injury, publish it under a title that implies that there is historical evidence that Oxford-- or anyone other than the actor William Shakespeare whose name is on the published plays and poems and on the monument in his home town of Stratford-- wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. There is no such evidence, and the article cites none. It is all speculation, supported mostly by smoke and mirrors, and partly by misstatements that any historian who specializes in the era would have flagged as flat out nonsense. Doesn't the Times have copy editors and fact checkers to prevent lunatics from misleading readers? Do you publish error riddled articles supporting lunatic theories on your Business or Science pages too, or is it only in the Arts that facts don't matter?

 

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