Show Unearthing of Old Document May Show Bacon Wrote Plays for Shakespeare LONDON Oct 24 UP Expo UP-Expo- Expo Exponents n of the theory that Francis Bacon wrote Willian Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shake Shake- speare's plays hope to prove their case this week by unearthing a year old document from the tomb of Edmund Spenser Prince of ot Poets in the Poets Poet's corner of I Westminster Abbey After many years of effort persuaded the Right Rev Dr Paul dean of Westminster to agree to the opening opening opening open open- ing of Spenser's tomb When Spenser died in 1599 poets of his day paid tribute to him by dropping manuscripts in their own hands into his tomb according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to William Camden contemporary contemporary contemporary con con- temporary historian Almost nothing is known of Shakespeare's own handwriting Five or six signatures three on his will comprise fragments The hope that the Shakespeare manuscript which the the to to them them alleged alleged Bard of ot Avon dropped Into Spenser's tomb will prove to have been written by Bacon Baton If the manuscripts manuscript are found that representing Shakespeare is bound to be one of ot the greatest literary finds of all time if not actually the greatest It will be bethe bethe I the only manuscript in Shakespeare's Shakespeare's Shake Shake- II speare's own hand |