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Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

There have been many theories about the real author of Shakespeare's plays, and evidence pointing toward Shakespeare's incapability of writing the plays. Here are several interesting articles about the controversy. What do you think? Who really was Shakespeare?

Plays Shakespeares Wrote Who

I can see the arguements used, they are very good arguements to be sure. I just don't think that its a huge issue. It is likely that Shakespeare was a pseudo name used for his writing, or even an entirely different person. I don't supposed we will ever know the absolute truth. I have always enjoyed Shakespeare, I will do some more research on the issue to appease my curiosity, but it wont effect my love of Shakespeare.

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We discussed some of these theories in my English Literature class a couple semesters ago. They're interesting how they line up with writings from other people. At the same time, though, whether Shakespeare did steal some basic writing ideas from other writers, I love reading his writing. If I am in the mood to read a book that makes me think and actually analyze what is going on, Shakespeare is the man to do it. If a person can understand his language, then his comedies are outright hysterical.

Plays Shakespeares Wrote Who

Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. There are many candidates, but the top three are Edward DeVere, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon. Two lesser candidates are QEI and Anne Hathaway. Here is why they did NOT write Shakespeare.

deVere -- Died in 1604, 12 years before Shakespeare died. Some of the Bard's best plays came in those 12 years.

Marlowe -- Killed in 1593. If you discount deVere, Marlowe can't be considered either.

Bacon -- Lived long enough but was not known as a playwright; also had distinctly different writing style

QEI -- The queen was a great poet and speech writer, but would she have had time to write 37 plays and 154 sonnets? Doubtful.

Anne Hathaway COULD have written her husband's plays, but it is likely she was less educated than he, and would you write plays for a spouse who was never home and warmed the bed of another?

Finally, here is why Shakespeare DID write Shakespeare:
1. He had a limited education.
2. He did not travel.

His limited education is apparent in many ways. He made mistakes in simple Latin phrases. He knew nothing of the Aristotelian unities. His knowledge of history (or lack of it) shows in Julius Caesar, when church bells ring in 44 BC. they weren't in use in that manner until the medieval period.

His lack of travel shows in his geographical mistakes. In one play, he has characters escaping to the sea through the canals of Venice. The city is land-locked and has no waterway to the sea. Anyone travelled or educated in geography would have known that. There are many examples such as these.

Likewise, there are many theories as to who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. The likeliest of these is that a very talented man, with a limited education and an intimate knowledge of human nature, wrote them. His name was William Shakespeare.

Plays Shakespeares Wrote Who

The ultimate answer to this question is that it doesn't matter. Shakespeare, who ever he is, gave us rich plays that where written for the common man. he gave us comedy, tragedy, and drama in a time when the commoners where ignored and forsaken. He cared about the people and had a love for writing. In the end, that love will carry him into history for centuries to come.

Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

Though I am very much a Shakespearean scholar and believe that the Bard is actually the Bard, I must agree. It doesn't matter who it was. SOMEONE wrote 37 comedies, tragedies, and histories with wonderful characters, engaging plots, and rich language still in use today. And that same someone wrote 154 sonnets all with the same rhyme scheme and meter, all in the same rhetorical style, and all applicable to the lives of any he who might read them. "So long as men have eyes and eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee." Nowhere has ever been written a more succinct argument for immortality through art, and WHOEVER wrote this body of work has earned that immortality.