Have you ever lain awake at night wondering who wrote Shakespeare? Of course you have. I have. My cat Lucy has. Even my slugabed Uncle Lewis lost a few z’s over it.
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But why should we, when the whole controversy was ingeniously settled a full century ago by Prof. Ellis Parker Butler, LL.G., O.U.K.I.D., in a brilliant piece of scholarship entitled “The Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Solved” (The Bookman, August 1913, pp. 675-677).
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Read here to discover the truth.
For background on the controversy, this article may help.