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- The authorship question merits open debate not only because of the mismatch between the life and the works which all biographers of Shakespeare are obliged to confront, but also because of the clear evidence for the practice of pseudonymous, proxy, and collaborative authorship among Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists.
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Well, the answer to that is yes. The thing about any kind of scholarship is that you begin with the evidence. And there is ample evidence that William Shakespeare, a man from Stratford-upon-Avon, and born in this place, became an actor, became a playwright, then eventually returned to Stratford and died.
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The grave below Shakespeare's monument does not bear his...
- When Did Shakespeare Die
The authorship question merits open debate not only because of the mismatch between the life and the works which all biographers of Shakespeare are obliged to confront, but also because of the clear evidence for the practice of pseudonymous, proxy, and collaborative authorship among Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists.
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The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him.
Apr 22, 2016 · James Wilmot may have been the first person to think that Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare. Wilmot was a reverend and a literary scholar, and the story goes that in 1781, when Shakespeare had...
May 15, 2023 · The Shakespeare authorship question—the theory that William Shakespeare might not have written the works published under his name—is the most horrible, vexed, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature.
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?
R. C. Churchill says that the first documented expression of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship came in 1760, in a farce entitled High Life Below Stairs in which a Miss Kitty poses the question: "Who wrote Shakespeare?" The Duke responds "Ben Jonson." Lady Bab then cries; "Oh, no!
