Tale of Dickens' fight to save Shakespeare house retold in exhibition

Tale of Dickens' fight to save Shakespeare house retold in exhibition

The story of how Charles Dickens helped save the house where William Shakespeare was born from the dastardly clutches of PT Barnum, the American showman who modestly billed his circus "the greatest show on earth", will be celebrated in an exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon this year.

theguardian.com

I don't usually advocate reading the comments but this one tickled me:

Someone will be along shortly to claim that the house actually belonged to the Earl of Oxford and prove it by pointing out that if you take the first four lines of Sonnet 99, convert the letters to numbers based on their place in the alphabet, multiply each by 26, divide them by 3 you get an anagram which can be arranged to say "I, Edward de Vere, have a house in Stratford on Avon, where I wrote plays under the name Shakspere" and only have 47 letters left over.