William Shakespeare Controversy

William Shakespeare is believed to be one of the greatest playwrights in history. His plays are performed everywhere in the world today and students of all ages read and write papers about the plays he is credited for writing. What if, however, William Shakespeare did not write any of the plays that the people of this world give him today? What if someone else wrote them and William Shakespeare stole the works? What if another playwright used William Shakespeare as a public figure to hide his face from the public? To really find out if William Shakespeare did write his plays, you have to look at his life and the records that are available to try and prove if he wrote the plays. People believe that William Shakespeare wrote his plays because …show more content…
The thing about these theories are, you can not really prove nor disprove them, most of the time. There is no doubt that plays such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth are great plays that impact our society, however many people have come to the belief that maybe, just maybe, William Shakespeare did not write all the plays he is
Fant 2 given authorship of. William Shakespeare’s life and lack of records helps to keep this controversy over the writer of these plays
William Shakespeare’s early life is a real mystery to the world. There is no birth records for William Shakespeare, but it is believed he was born three days before his birth. William
Shakespeare was the third child of John Shakespeare and Joan Arden. He had five other siblings consisting of two older sisters and three younger brothers. William Shakespeare’s father held a position of something like a mayor and was a successful merchant. Supposedly around the late
1570s, William Shakespeare’s father started losing his money. Being from the 16th and 17th centuries, there is little records of William Shakespeare even existing at times. Scholars believe that William Shakespeare went to the school in Stratford, King’s New School. Since there is