Evening star., 1962-08-26
Washington Enthusiasts Are the Principal Figures the Revival
Of an Old Issue: Who Wrote Shokespeore's Poys?

ing Shakspers death who finding themselves Stratord
spoke of being reminded of william Shakespeare who
two memorials in the local church
Shaksper, of property though in his will he
ons trivia such bowl sword and bed nothing of
any books of twenty unpublished plays which, by Shake
speare the most popular dramas of England would be
valuable property.
There is contemporary evidence that Shake speare
sold plays and the evidence that
unconvincng His does not appear connection
first 6 Shakespeare plays entered in the Staoners Register
for copyright Nothing whatever known from contemporary
about the poet 1915 year
of Shakpers DEATH there absolutely mention anywhere
of ShakeSpeares DEATH the chroncler Camden
who wrote OOword account of the events of 1916 and who
authority "the worthless of Sratford There
record Of occasion which had any
contact with person identified dramatist
To student of the plays and poems literature the
standard orthodox biography is likely become simply
credible What other writer of scope and tech
nica proficiency has background nearly void education
and the possibilities of experience?
These among the Ogburn's main contentious II is in
credible to them that whose works famous
his day could have made little mark his extraordinarily
susceptible times as person unless he masked by
pseudOnym The poet is " linked to Straord years
after Shaksper died in the First Folio of 1923 The
in the Srafor church. claiming contain the remains
poet presumably dates from the the before
In the same church there is the Of Shaksper with its "a
nous and highly unShakespearean epaph dating from 1916
SratfOr did become widely celebrated the
birthplace of Shakespeare the David
Garick Shakespeare festival there also
is he the Ogburns not alone believe be the Bard Avon ut
should be noted that while anSraordans safely
be called crackpot all of them have their
have included Dickens Disrae Mark Twain Bismarck Walt
Whitman Henry James and Sgmund Freud) Oxford the hy
pohess s could not his popular plays for
of social prestige political The public
na dig in Eizabehan days and while Oxford could we'll gain
reputation court playwright he must shun that Of writer
for the pit Furthermore according the hypothesis there
much in the plays which fknown be by
court nObeman would political and perhaps corporea
death Oxford did not at first the conved shake
speare he had taken for the early nondramac
sonne and the poems but eventually plays registered
and printed under that name.
The First Folio containing all the plays except "Perces
printed long after the death of both Shasper and Oxford
The family of Oxford contved according the hypothes
to fOrestal pOsthumous association of Oxford with the plays
by creating dummy playwright out of Shaksper with
similar and who had connection with
London theatre a sockhoder Shaksper became Shake
the Oxford family presumably having already effected
the ridiculous second memorial in the Straford church The
various items of predatory matter in the First Folio
ambiguous some limiting of hoax patiently untrue the
Of the orthodox and of antStraordans
Continued