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Is Shakespeare Dead?, by Mark Twain
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Title: Is Shakespeare Dead? from my Autobiography
Author: Mark Twain
Release Date: July 7, 2008 [eBook #2431]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1909 Harper & Brothers edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Proofing by Alan Ross, Ana Charlton and David.
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?
FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
MARK TWAIN
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON M C M I X
CHAPTER I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with "Claimants"--claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Claimant; Louis XVII., Claimant; William Shakespeare, Claimant; Arthur Orton, Claimant; Mary Baker G. Eddy, Claimant--and the rest of them. Eminent Claimants, successful Claimants, defeated Claimants, royal Claimants, pleb Claimants, showy Claimants, shabby Claimants, revered Claimants, despised Claimants, twinkle starlike here and there
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
by Mark Twain