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5 unusual facts about J. Thomas Looney


Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

John Galsworthy (1867–1933, English novelist and playwright, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature. Best known for The Forsyte Saga and its sequels): Described Oxfordian J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified as "the best detective story" he had ever read.

J. Thomas Looney

Even at the end of his life, in 1939, Freud repeats his view in the final revision of An Outline of Psychoanalysis.

In 1920 he published his work, whose short title is Shakespeare Identified, through Cecil Palmer in London.

The Church of Humanity gave special prominence to Shakespeare, naming a month after him in the Positivist calendar, and placing a bust of him in its place of worship.

John Looney

J. Thomas Looney (1870–1944), originator of the Oxfordian theory regarding the authorship of Shakespeare's plays



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