Was Shakespeare a She?(the case for Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke)(Brief Article)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 28-JUN-04

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Byline: ANNE UNDERWOOD

For more than 150 years, literary sleuths have questioned whether William Shakespeare--a man with only a grammar-school education, at best--could possibly have penned the greatest works in the English language. But if he didn't, who did? Dozens of candidates have been proposed, most of them men....

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