Professor claims Shakespeare find

WASHINGTON - A US professor who spent 13 years studying the wording of a 17th century elegy claims the poem is a long lost work…

WASHINGTON - A US professor who spent 13 years studying the wording of a 17th century elegy claims the poem is a long lost work by William Shakespeare, the New York Times reported.

Mr Donald Foster found the 1612 poem bearing the initials W.S. on microfilm at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1983.

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