Posted by Big Al at 1cust198.tnt1.corvallis.or.da.uu.net on March 05, 2001 at 17:45:14:
In Reply to: shakespear, shakespearE.. depends who you ask NT posted by Pitstain on March 04, 2001 at 20:55:11:
: they're both accepted.
The accepted spelling is Shakespeare.
Only the man himself - in his many different spellings - spelled it without the final E.
Anyway, it's moot since he was really Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
Al