Who Was Shakespeare?
Who was Shakespeare? Was he a simple illiterate bard? Or was he an earl, born of sophistication and eloquence? It has been an argument that has spanned lifetimes. To some people it doesnt matter at all. He was just some random guy who wrote a bunch of good plays. To others it means everything. They are those who consider Shakespeare's works to be Western man's highest achievement in literature. "I am haunted by the conviction that the divine William [Shakespeare] was the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced upon a patient world" (Henry James). In Shakespeare's time, no one disputed that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays and sonnets credited to him. They were published: "Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies" and "Shake-speare's Sonnets." William Shakespeare of Stratford never protested that he didn't write them. Not one person claimed instead to be their author. All contemporary evidence correlates with William Shakespeare being their author. There is not one bit of evidence of anyone else being their author instead. Despite this, since the 19th Century there are those who have believed that someone else must have written them instead. Not that there's a
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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