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If you check your bookshelf, you'll find that authors generally put their names on the plays. Well, on your bookshelf, Dr. Seuss is a pen name, but people who use pen names nearly always create a new name, not that of a living person.Can you name any other examples of an author using the name of an existing person when writing stories? I doubt it. Since this happens so rarely, it's up to you to provide evidence to support your claim. Let's see it. Name one person who was in the position to know Shakespeare who disputed the claim to authorship.
And get you facts right. Shakespeare was not a grain merchant, and there are many references to him leading a theater troupe. A job, by the way, that required he write plays for the troupe.
Also, there were accolades at his death. Ben Jonson praised him at his funeral. But you aren't interesting in anything as inconvenient as facts.
Let's see some proof. Otherwise, you're just talking fiction. Fantasy fiction, at that.
Posted by Reality Chuck on March 26, 1997 at 08:07:50
In Reply to "not the whole story, tho..." posted by Bill Routhier on March 25, 1997 at 11:41:36
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