Stratford News

Bill Silverfarb/Daily Journal Firefighters responded to a small kitchen fire started by a toaster oven at the Stratford condominiums near downtown San Mateo yesterday morning.

STRATFORD -- The Veterans Day program in Stratford is being sponsored by the Stratford Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post 6352.

Discussing whether Shakespeare did pen the works attributed to his name, Rhys Ifans gave his take: "There is absolutely no evidence to prove, or to qualify, that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author of these plays." He concluded that his character, the Earl of Oxford, "is a very convincing candidate." "I believe that there's a question ... (more)

There is a 150-year old controversy that the name "William Shakespeare" was actually a pen name, like "Mark Twain" was the pen name of Samuel Clemens.