Tomb Said To Hold Proof Shakespeare Was ‘Stooge’
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. A New York drama critic annoimced in London today that he has won permission to open a 300-year-old tomb which,- he beUeves, will prove that Shakespeare was “a stooge, third-rate actor, and fraud.” The critic, Mr Calvin Hoffman, said he hoped within the next two weeks, to pay a stonemason £350 to unseal the tomb of Sir Thomas Walsingham in the church of St. Nicholas, Chislehurst, Kent. Mr Hoffman’s theory is that the plays of Shakespeare were written by
an Elizabethan contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, said to have been murdered in a tavern brawl in 1593. He believes that Marlowe faked his death and left England to avoid torturd and executions for treason and heresy. He says that Marlowe’s patron and benefactor. Sir Thomas Walsingham. helped Marlowe by receiving his plays and paying Shakespeare td publish them under his own name. He is convinced that Walsingham was buried together with a leaa box containing manuscripts of between 20 and 36 playirsttributed to Shakespeare, but really written by Marlowe. i
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27735, 12 August 1955, Page 11
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