Professor, Shakespeare festival chair discusses fact versus Hollywood

Published: Feb. 4, 2011, 5 a.m.

The bard or not the bard? That is the question, or so says one Hollywood director. This month, Murray State University hosts its annual Shakespeare Festival. In a movie opening this fall titled Anonymous, director Roland Emmerich, who brought audiences films like Independence Day, takes on a theory that Shakespeare did, in fact, not write the works that have endured for four centuries. On that note, festival chair Professor Rusty Jones joined Jacque Day in our studios for this discussion.