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SHAKESPERE AND BACON ' LONDON, Feb. 1 The eternal Bacon-Shakespere controversy has been revived by the Bacon Society's approach to the Dean of Westminster for permission to open Spenser's tomb in tho Abbey with the idea of examining the elegy of Shakespere, as woll as those by other major poets which were cast into the grave, so that its handwriting can be compared with that of Bacon.
This, it is suggested, will settle whether Shakespere was merely a penname used by Bacon or if such a personality actually lived.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22643, 3 February 1937, Page 13
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90CONTROVERSY REVIVED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22643, 3 February 1937, Page 13
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