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SHAKESPEARE IN THE NEWS!
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is an Oxfordian! According to [|the article "Justice Stevens Renders an Opinion on Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays," published in the April 18-19, 2009 Wall Street Journal]Justice Stevens believes evidence shows that Shakespeare did not write everything attributed to him, but rather 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did! Oxfordians believe that "only a nobleman could have produced writings so replete with intimate depictions of courtly life and exotic settings far beyond England" (Bravin A1), so Shakespeare, son of a working-class glover from Stratford, could never have written such rich and complex works. [|Check out the related blog entry from Wall Street Journal onine.]Thank you, Abby, for bringing in the article!

[|An article in the New York Times looks at a death mask created in 1616 and asks, is it William Shakespeare'?] "Is a death mask found in a ragpicker's shop in 1842 that of William Shakespeare? This coming Saturday's issue of the British weekly New Scientist says the mask, bearing the date 1616 and the high forehead, prominent nose and beard associated with Shakespeare, could be, Agence France-Presse reported" (Van Gelder). Thank you, Matt, for the link to this article!

HUGE Shakespeare News -- happening right now!

 * A new portrait of Shakespeare has been discovered!**

"Portrait of Shakespeare Unveiled, 399 Years Late" by Robert Mackey Published: March 9, 2009A Shakespeare scholar unveiled a painting today in London that he claims was made during the Bard's lifetime -- the first such likeness known to exist. [|Click here to go to the article.]

"Unique portrait of Shakespeare unveiled" Published: Mon Mar 9, 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]


 * [[image:8th-grade-english:TheTheatreSite.jpg align="left"]]The site of The Theatre, the first theatre Shakespeare worked at and the forerunner to The Globe, has been found. //Dream// was performed at this site! The timbers of //this site// were the ones that Shakespeare and his friends supposedly pushed across the frozen Thames to build The Globe.**

"Shakespeare's first theatre found" Published: Monday, March 9, 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]

"Shakespeare's lost theatre uncovered..." Published: 09 Mar 2009 [|Click here to go to the article.]

Interesting Article Alert!
Shakespeare's Globe recommends books for children: http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/information/latestnews/20071123/4983/.

Adventures in Shakespeare
Click here to go to Mrs. Barth's Shakespeare blog, which traces the two weeks in July 2008 that she spent in England studying Shakespeare and //A Midsummer Night's Dream//: http://8th-grade-english-shakespeare.blogspot.com/

Click here to go to the "8-4-1 //Dream//" blog, which documents the 8th, 4th, and 1st graders' experiences working together to put on a production of //A Midsummer Night's Dream//: []

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