Date (happened)
1611
passage 550945 (lecture nid 1989): 'they brought me the book of The Tempest, written in 1611, the year that our Bible came out in English'
Told / reported
28 May 1963
delivery claim [d2] on lecture nid 1989 (certain, sourced to the transcript's own byline dateline)
In 1611, Shakespeare's play The Tempest appeared in the same year as the King James Bible's English translation. Neville recounts this in his 28 May 1963 lecture "Jesus Only", recalling a debate from his theatre days in New York in the 1920s-30s over the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays, in which someone brought him The Tempest and pointed to its 1611 date -- the same year as the KJV -- as part of an acrostic argument for a hidden author.