Word: authorship
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Alfred B. Harbage, professor of English, sharply criticized those "eccentrics" who stir up controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays as being symbolic of the uninformed and unappreciative attitude which exists in this country towards the Bard's work...
Some 30 scholars debated the authorship...
...concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus. His flat is on the floor above hers; when she wants him, she bangs on the ceiling with a broom, and he sneaks down through the dumbwaiter. Then one day her husband sails in through the door...
...making all three act and react in agreeably unbourgeois fashion, Playwright Green whips the situation into a nice comic froth. Then an Internal Revenue man arrives, finds that secret joint authorship leads to curious joint tax returns, and stirs up some fiscal commotion. After that, though in a rather graceful way, Janus goes downhill...
Your review of Calvin Hoffman's The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" [June 13] speaks of the snobbery of the "anti-Shakespeareans." Isn't it another kind of snobbishness that makes so many college professors believe in the authorship of "the man who never went through college"? . . . L. M. SMITH