SHAKESPEARE OR BACON?

Grey River Argus, 13 August 1937, Page 9

SHAKESPEARE OR BACON?

Suggested Solution TO THE CONTROVERSY. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received August 12, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. In a belief that the tomb of the poet, Edmund Spenser, in Westminster Abbey, holds a solution to a Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the Bacon Society are seeking permission to open it. The Society is claiming that when Spenser was buried, fellow poets placed signed elegies in his grave, and the Society hopes to find one, signed “Shakespeare,” in Bacon's handwriting. The Dean of Westminster is willing to allow the grave to be re-open-ed provided that sufficient litterateurs will recommend such an opening on the ground of historical interest.