Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), August 21st, 2005
Byline: Herman Gollob
Special to the Star Tribune
The shocking revelation in Mark Anderson's " `Shakespeare' By Another Name: The Man Who Was Shakespeare" is not its claim that the Shakespeare canon actually is the work of a nasty little nobleman named Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, but rather the endorsement of this dubious premise in a foreword by one of the most brilliant actors of our age, Sir Derek Jacobi. However, Sir Derek has in the past opined that Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy actually is a speech that should be addressed to Ophelia, a concept so notably bereft of comm...
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