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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Look upon Shakespeare?

Is this the face that launched a thousand bad summer festivals?


Read about this exciting--even if dubious--discovery here.
(A Times article about Shakespeare not by William Niederkorn! Progress?)
UPDATE: BBC has more nerdy sleuthing here, for the intrepid.

1 comment:

Andrew said...

I wonder how the Earl-of-Oxford crowd will take this. It's unquestionably newsworthy, and exciting to think of, and yet there's something a wee bit creepy about all the Shakespeare fetishizing.