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

[Reed C Bowman]

Fred Shapiro 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?
>
>Fred Shapiro
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I've only ever heard that about Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law was not 
written by Murphy, but by another of the same name.

RCB