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.




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