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[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/6/2010 05:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>1993 Norrie Epstein _The Friendly Shakespeare_ (N.Y.: Penguin) 289: Edward
>de Vere...is now regarded as the leading contender to Shakespeare's crown
>
>Epstein doesn't claim that Edward, Earl of Oxford, really wrote
>Shakespeare's plays; just that some people think so and, even though Oxford
>died before some of the plays were supposedly written, you never can tell,
>can you?

Not from Google Books, which besides posthumous credit also confers
prehumous credit.  (if the latter doesn't exist, it should.  8000 Google hits.)

Joel


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