SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE
Tens of thousands of Coronation visitors to Britain whose first aim after the ceremony will be a pilgrimage to Strat-ford-on-Avon may find an extraordinary controversy. Mr 11. L. Eagle, a member of the 51-year-old Bacon Society, which stoutly contests the view that Shakespeare wrote the plays, suggests that the authenticity or otherwise of the house regarded as Shakespeare’s birthplace should be proved by a “ test case.” His idea (says the 1 Sunday Chronicle ’) is that'if someone paid for admittance to the famous house and then claimed the return of his money the trustees would have to prove that Shakespeare was born there.
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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