LONDON--The Dean of Westminister Abbey today told a group of excavators to pack up their spades and get out after they had opened the wrong grave in search of an answer to the 170-year-old dispute as to whether William Shakespeare really wrote his own stuff.
An attempt to prove, by digging nearly four feet to the tomb of poet Edmund Spenser, that Francis Bacon was the real author of Shakespeare's plays ended in complete failure.
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