All The Mysteries That Remain

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Debating Philip Womack (Or the Orthodox Conspiracy Theories Used to Prop Up Shakespeare's Reputation)

Debating Philip Womack (Or the Orthodox Conspiracy Theories Used to Prop Up Shakespeare's Reputation)

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The challenge is straightforward.

Other than Shakespeare, name any playwright in the Shakespeare-era who had a play deliberately and falsely attributed to him on a title page while he was alive.

And, failing that, how about this:

Name any single work in all of English publishing history that was deliberately, exclusively, and falsely foisted upon anothe…

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