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Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems.

From Time Magazine Archive

His 700-page Will Shakspere and the Dyer's Hand is his second try at unmasking Shakespeare, and the result of 20 years' sniffing among Shakespearean data.

From Time Magazine Archive

"William, son of John Shakspere," was baptized in 1564 in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford, England.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, although I recall his leaving his Shakspere* class in the manner you describe, I do not recall his leaving the Chaucer class that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Herbert was sixteen years younger than Shakspere, and nineteen years younger than Bacon.

From Bacon and Shakspere by Burr, William Henry