The true man behind the manusripts, was it really William Shakespeare?

Because there is no record of William Shakespeare ever having proper schooling many researchers doubt the possibility that he actually wrote all the works he is credited for. They say the known facts of his life do not match up with the quality of his manuscripts. Because of this, some suspect the name ‘William Shakespeare’ to be a penname for another author, Edward de Vere. Other researchers credit the works he is known for to different authors, such as Francis Bacon and Chrisopher Marlowe.

The Debate of Shakespeare's Works

The controversy and debate is about how people don’t think William Shakespeare wrote all of those plays in his lifetime. They think people like Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon wrote them. People also believe that it was the 17th Earl of Oxford that wrote those plays. Supporters of Oxford called Oxfordians support Oxford and the idea that he wrote them. They don’t think Shakespeare wrote them because they don’t think that he had a superior education because he never went to college. I don’t know what to believe, but I think Shakespeare did write this stuff, and I wonder when this debate will ever end. It has been going on since the 1700’s.






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Shakespeare...is he a liar?

Sarkis Zenobian
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Since there is little actually know about William Shakespeare a debate about the original creator of Hamlet is still going on to this day.

Although William Shakespeare has been the accepted author of many plays many doubt that he was actually the original author of all of his plays. There are many possibilities that William Shakespeare was not the original creator of Hamlet. One piece of evidence William Shakespeare’s Polonius of Hamlet and Edward de Vere’s the Earl’s guardian have many noted similarities. Another piece of evidence that suggests that William Shakespeare copied if even existed at all is that Edward used William Shakespeare as his pen name creating many questions on William Shakespeare’s (the real one’s) authorship or possibly his existence. Some people believe that de Vere was the complete author of Hamlet and that his play was taken from him. The third and final reason that many people have their doubts about Shakespeare is that he never received a college degree but De Vere received two of them. Education was hard to come by back them and for a man of his time it would take a miracle to have these ideas just hit a man like Shakespeare. Personally I do think that William Shakespeare did use ideas and things from Edward de Vere but then made the play in his way and made quite a few changes.
Nelson, Alan H. Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 40. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Ward, B.M. The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604: From Contemporary Documents. London: John Murray, 1928.




Pressley, J. M. "An Encapsulated Biography." Shakespeare Resource Center, February 10, 2005. October 11, 2005. <http://www.bardweb.net/man.html>.
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Authorship Dilemma

These are some reasons why that people would think that Shakespeare would not be able to write all of the plays that he did. One reason is that nowbody thinks that anyone without a college aducation would be able to write as well as he did. Another reason is that he was vvery poor and never had very much in his life. Also some people thought that he might have been a little crazy. That is why some people think that he would not be able to right the plays.

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Francis Bacon was a great candidate for the writing of Shakespeare’s plays. There are many reasons that he could and couldn’t have done this. The first and largest reason that he couldn’t have produced the plays is because he was a very busy man. Many people don’t believe he could have done this because he was very busy and that he would have had spend a lot of time on writing the plays that Cleary he didn’t have. There is another way that he could have not completed the task of writing the play. Many historians believe that he had a very different writing style as William Shakespeare. There are none or very few ideas that support the writing of the plays were ever by Francis Bacon.