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Celebrate Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day!

by Linda Theil Celebrate the Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day by sharing your favorite authorship book or video under the #ShakespeareAuthorshipMysteryDay on all your social media sites!  Here is an Oberon favorite: The Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction, and Modern Biographies (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) by David Ellis.  Read all about The Truth . . . on the July 17, 2012 Oberon post, "UK professor says Shakespeare biographies are bunk". Resources Amazon,  https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-William-Shakespeare-Biographies/dp/0748646671/ Oberon,  http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/2012/07/uk-professor-says-shakespeare.html

Hemingway shown Shakespeare skeptical

by Linda Theil Ernest Hemingway may be added to the list of Shakespeare authorship skeptics thanks to Nina Green finding a Hemingway letter to Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins. Hemingway opens the letter datelined August 27, 1942 “ La Finca Vigia ” with praise for  Alden Brooks’   Will Shakespeare and the Dyer’s Hand  (Scribners, 1943) wherein Brooks proposes Sir Edward Dyer as the true author of Shakespeare’s plays.   Hemingway said: Dear Max: Thank you very much for sending me the galleys from Alden Brooks's Shakespeare book. I think it is very possible, as he told me last fall in Tucson, that he has really nailed the man at last. He is so enthusiastic and follows so like a bloodhound and a district attorney with a record for convictions, on the trail of poor Will that he will alienate many people, but as you say he piles up a terrific amount of evidence. Anyway, it is a marvelous job and it would be a crime for it not to be published. He is a good man too and was