Shakespeare or not William Shakespeare was undoubtedly described as a genius playwright, however many question if he was the actual author or if there are other possibilities. It’s a known possibility that the name “Shakespeare” might have been a penname or a group of writers that got grouped under one name. There are scholars and credible people who believe there is strong evidence that Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was the author of these plays and poems. Despite two hundred years of scholarly attempts to establish the Stratford man's credentials, doubts about the author's identity refuse to go away. Although many people know of William Shakespeare’s plays, his personal history is somewhat of a mystery. There isn’t much
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There is just unclear and sparse amounts of evidence that prove that William was in fact the true author. Because there is an absence of proof, some skeptical people have asked this question: How could a man of such humble origins and education have access to such wide understanding of complex legal and political matters and also have such deep insight of the knowledge of life in the English court. Secondly, there is just no connection between him and the characters in his literary work. There are many reasons why people doubt his identity but this is one of the biggest because of the complete misfit between the life of Shakspere and all of the characters written under his name. It might be passed as a simple theory if regular people doubted him but even scholars and many credible writers and people question his true identity. The father of the great Shakespeare editor, W.H. Furness once stated, “I am one of the many who has never been able to bring the life of William Shakespeare within planetary space of the plays. Are there any two things in the world more incongruous?” He is basically stating that the life documented in conventional biographies of Shakespeare is inconsistent with the life revealed in the plays and …show more content…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a recognized and immensely talented poet and playwright, a patron of literature, theatre and music. Here’s a little background on Edward, he was known in the Elizabethan court as a prominent patron of the theatre and known as an underground poet/playwright. The poet was raised as a ward of Queen Elizabeth in the home of Lord Burghley. Oxford was an extrovert and loved traveling, he also had access to the knowledge Shakespeare would have known. De Vere was mentioned in Palladis Tamia as “best for comedy,” but none of his manuscripts were recovered. The manuscript collection went missing and Oxford was lost in history until 1920 when J. Thomas Looney claimed the earl was the true author. Ever since then more research was done to support the theory and an increasingly large amount of books have been published about it. There are coincidences that are related in some of Shakespeare’s work that correlates to the earl. Such as, Venus and Adonis, which is the first piece of work that bears the name of William Shakespeare. The poem was dedicated to the 3rd Earl of Southampton, who was engaged to Oxford’s daughter. Southampton is also thought to be the “fair youth” of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Speaking of coincidences, a couple of sonnets and plays often contain frequent references to events that are paralleled in Oxford’s
There is just unclear and sparse amounts of evidence that prove that William was in fact the true author. Because there is an absence of proof, some skeptical people have asked this question: How could a man of such humble origins and education have access to such wide understanding of complex legal and political matters and also have such deep insight of the knowledge of life in the English court. Secondly, there is just no connection between him and the characters in his literary work. There are many reasons why people doubt his identity but this is one of the biggest because of the complete misfit between the life of Shakspere and all of the characters written under his name. It might be passed as a simple theory if regular people doubted him but even scholars and many credible writers and people question his true identity. The father of the great Shakespeare editor, W.H. Furness once stated, “I am one of the many who has never been able to bring the life of William Shakespeare within planetary space of the plays. Are there any two things in the world more incongruous?” He is basically stating that the life documented in conventional biographies of Shakespeare is inconsistent with the life revealed in the plays and …show more content…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a recognized and immensely talented poet and playwright, a patron of literature, theatre and music. Here’s a little background on Edward, he was known in the Elizabethan court as a prominent patron of the theatre and known as an underground poet/playwright. The poet was raised as a ward of Queen Elizabeth in the home of Lord Burghley. Oxford was an extrovert and loved traveling, he also had access to the knowledge Shakespeare would have known. De Vere was mentioned in Palladis Tamia as “best for comedy,” but none of his manuscripts were recovered. The manuscript collection went missing and Oxford was lost in history until 1920 when J. Thomas Looney claimed the earl was the true author. Ever since then more research was done to support the theory and an increasingly large amount of books have been published about it. There are coincidences that are related in some of Shakespeare’s work that correlates to the earl. Such as, Venus and Adonis, which is the first piece of work that bears the name of William Shakespeare. The poem was dedicated to the 3rd Earl of Southampton, who was engaged to Oxford’s daughter. Southampton is also thought to be the “fair youth” of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Speaking of coincidences, a couple of sonnets and plays often contain frequent references to events that are paralleled in Oxford’s