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- This article examines the different kinds of authorship in relation to William Shakespeare; who wrote Shakespeare; what kind of author Shakespeare was; and the Shakespeare canon. It is hard to exaggerate the cultural prestige that is invested in Shakespeare as an author.
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Jan 8, 2019 · The discrepancies between the conventional view that William from Stratford wrote the works ascribed to Shakespeare and extant documentary evidence has led to the Shakespeare authorship debate. What would scientists make of this?
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Dec 24, 2019 · Here again, the evidence suggests divided authorship, but does not exclude Shakespeare’s authorship of the entire play. Most modern studies of the play divide it between Shakespeare and Middleton, but E.K. Chambers and Una Ellis-Fermor regarded it as entirely Shakespeare’s, but unfinished.
Oxford, Bacon, Derby, and Marlowe (clockwise from top left, Shakespeare centre) have each been proposed as the true author. The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him.
Feb 21, 2011 · Scholars have long disputed what “stylometry” or “stylometrics” may tell us about the authorship of Shakespearean and other writings. These terms refer to the systematic study and statistical analysis of various features of literary style, in order to draw inferences about authorship.
Apr 16, 2008 · The authorship debate is conceptualised according to different paradigms: as a conspiracy theory, as a reaction against the growing professionalisation of literary studies within universities, and as a version of the child's wish for more glamorous parents, theorised by Freud in ‘Family Romances’.
- Emma Smith
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I have been enriched by my acquaintance with Shakespeare and his fellows for almost seventy years, but unlike Craig, Kinney, and Vickers, I have not given the greater part of my academic life to the study of Renaissance drama* In a third
People like Christopher Marlowe and, indeed, a variety of aristocrats, Lord Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, have been proposed as the true author of Shakespeare. But the intriguing thing about Meres is that he does mention Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, elsewhere as writers.
