Sticking It To Shakespeare The Washington Post | March 18, 1994| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

ARE YOU TIRED of being told how great William Shakespeare is? Sick of simpering sycophants spouting quotations from the Bard? Skeptical that a half-educated country boy from Avon could have written incomparable poetry, and plays that display intimate knowledge of the wide world and dozens of different trades and professions?

If so, the Folger Shakespeare Library has got just the show for you. The library's great hall is filled with memorabilia and diatribes from the centuries of controversy over the question of who really wrote all that stuff that appears under Shakespeare's byline.

If, on ...

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