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

[swguardian-stumpers at yahoo.com]

Here is the quote from a 1910 newspaper
   
  The Post-Standard 
Syracuse, New York
Wednesday, October 26, 1910  
   
  His excuse is akin to the statement of the Shakespearian scholar who, having investigated 
  for many years the question of the authorship of Shakespeare, finally announced that they 
  were not written by Shakespeare, but by another man of the same name. 
   
  This from Twain in 1900 (on Homer) 
   
  "Homer's writings are Homer's Essays Virgil the Aneid and Paradise lost some people say that these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of the same name. " 
- Mark Twain, English As She is Taught (Boston: Mutual Book Co., 1900) 23 

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?

Fred Shapiro


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