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Doug Stewart, a long-time contributor to Smithsonian magazine, is the author of The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly (Da Capo Press). For more go here.

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Why We Keep Looking for the Bard

Posted May 17, 2010 | 10:00:00 (EST)

After 282 years of eligibility, a play with a questionable past is being inducted into English literature's most esteemed hall of fame, the Shakespeare canon. Whether it belongs there is, for most people, beside the point. What matters is that the immortal Bard is still tantalizing us with new work,...

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