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SHAKESPEARE LEAGUE.

NEW FACTS DISCOVERED. An important discovery in connection with Elizabethan research was announced at the annual opening meeting of the London Shakespeare League. Mr William I’oel, chairman of the league, said that Mr W. J. Lawrence, a member of the league, had written to say that he had found indisputable proof that “Hamlet” had been produced in the year 1600, and that details of the find would be given by Mr Lawrence in the course of lectures he had been invited to deliver before the students of Harvard University. Another discovery was made public by Mr St. John Ervine, the dramatist and novelist. He said that a hitherto unknown diary had been found in an English country houso which gave personal reference to Shakespeare. _ This placed him as a man .of eminence among his contemporaries. He (Mr Ervine) had been trying to get hold of the diary, but so far, the owner had kept its contents secret*

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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 289, 10 November 1925, Page 10

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SHAKESPEARE LEAGUE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 289, 10 November 1925, Page 10

SHAKESPEARE LEAGUE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 289, 10 November 1925, Page 10