books.google.com - When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor for twenty-four years. Yet his death was not an event. It made no stir, it attracted no attention. Apparently his eminent literary contemporaries did not realize that...http://books.google.com/books/about/Is_Shakespeare_Dead.html?id=CBqvBvVPdpEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIs Shakespeare Dead?