[PW] ? Quote About Shakespeare (Quotation Query #644)

[S M Colowick]

On 5/19/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> I am trying to find out about the origins of a quotation something like
> "Shakespeare's plays were really written by someone else with the same
> name."  Can anyone supply any information pointing to early appearances of
> this quotation?

I found this attributed to a Pogo cartoon; maybe someone else can verify it:

http://www.pbc.org/library/files/html/4550.html - It reminds me of a
story in Walt Kelly's comic strip some decades ago. At that time there
was some debate in scholarly circles about whether William Shakespeare
had really written the plays attributed to him. So Kelly parodied that
with one of his cartoon figures rushing in and saying, "They proved
conclusively that William Shakespeare didn't write his plays-it was
someone else named Shakespeare."

Susie