Was Shakespeare a fraud?
The question of authorship has come up – did he actually write those famous plays and poems? Some people suspect that what he claimed as his own were actually the works of Edward De Vere, Lord Francis Bacon, the Earls of Essex, Derby, Rutland and Oxford, and Christopher Marlowe; some even believe that Queen Elizabeth I herself wrote them. Some evidence of this is the lack of manuscripts and letters, the fact that he had no scholarly pursuits, a simple background, and frankly, little education. Some of the world’s most influential figures doubt his authenticity; people like Helen Keller, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Mark Twain, and even Charles Dickens. Shakespeare was just an uneducated commoner, and although there really is no evidence that he never actually wrote those famous works, could this conspiracy theory possibly be true?
Bibliography : CBS news, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, S. Gustafson, www.guardian.co.uk
The question of authorship has come up – did he actually write those famous plays and poems? Some people suspect that what he claimed as his own were actually the works of Edward De Vere, Lord Francis Bacon, the Earls of Essex, Derby, Rutland and Oxford, and Christopher Marlowe; some even believe that Queen Elizabeth I herself wrote them. Some evidence of this is the lack of manuscripts and letters, the fact that he had no scholarly pursuits, a simple background, and frankly, little education. Some of the world’s most influential figures doubt his authenticity; people like Helen Keller, Sigmund Freud, Orson Welles, Mark Twain, and even Charles Dickens. Shakespeare was just an uneducated commoner, and although there really is no evidence that he never actually wrote those famous works, could this conspiracy theory possibly be true?
Bibliography : CBS news, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, S. Gustafson, www.guardian.co.uk