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Excerpt from Which Shall It Be? New Lamps or Old? Shaxpere or Shakespeare?
In the earliest notice of the poet by name in printed literature, 1594, the surname appears with a hyphen, Shake-speare, and so in many other as unusual instances.
There is nothing like an argument based on a single leading and apparently conclusive fact for misleading the inexperienced or the unwary. Shakespeare spelt his name in a certain fashion and it is obvious that it should be so printed.
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