Tom Bethell and "The Case for Shakespeare" Iwin Matus, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1991), 745 The Thing Boylston St., Boston, Mass. 021 16.
No .fewer 'than 58 individuals have been proposed at one time or another as the true author of the works attributed to Wil- liam Shakespeare (1 564-1 6 16) of Strat- ford. The anti-Stratfordians' current favor- ite is Edward de Vere (1550-1604), the 17th Earl of Oxford, a courtier who was a scholar, athlete, and poet. Journalist Tom Bethel1 contends the...