Why?

There are many reasons why Shakespeare couldn't claim the playwrights as his own. They were never written down on paper, so they could never be claimed. Shakespeare never wrote down in his will that they were his and he never wrote a will. These plays were never claimable, but some other people tried to claim to them. If he had written a will it might be able to proven that he had written them. Another thing that could have proven that was if he had kept a script and signed his name on it. These are just a few reasons that no one could claim them.

Authorship Debate

People of Shakespeare's time have been debating on weather or not Shakespeare really wrote his own plays. There is not a lotof evidence that says the he wrote his own books and plays. This debate has been going on since 1770, and people are still debiting about if he really wrote his own books and plays.

Is Shakspeare a fraud?

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
(April 12, 1550–June 24, 1604)

Edward was an Elizabethan courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of many writers, and he was a sponsor for two acting companies called Oxford’s Men, and Oxford’s Boys. He was born at Castle Hedingham to the 16th Earl of Oxford. Oxford is really famous today as the strongest candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays. Some people think that Edward was the author of Shakespeare because he had advanced education, knowledge of aristocratic life, the military and the law, background in the theatre, the praise accorded Oxford's works, and numerous similarities between Oxford's life and the plays. So, there could be a possibility that Edward wrote Shakespeare's plays.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, who was a philosopher and a writer, is a possible person for why this could have been Shakespeare. One difference though is that Bacon wrote a little bit of poetry but really good quality, therefore Shakespeare wrote a lot of poetry but all a different bit of quality. Bacon’s learning and his memoirs though provide the writing style and good amount of poetry used as the Shakespeare who wrote his main plays. It’s hard to see though that considering how many plays Shakespeare wrote and how the quality was different in each play, when bacon wrote very few plays and extremely good quality. This topic is very hard to come to a conclusion about thought because of this situation. You have many people who could have written one play or a group that would work on the plays and all use the same pen name. The quality of each play changes so there possibly could have been a couple of different people who wrote one individual play and then another person would write another one. They have come to a conclusion of this factor of Francis or any other candidates that could possibly be Shakespeare, who knows if this myth of who is Shakespeare will ever be solved. Even if Francis Bacon is not the real Shakespeare, he wrote a lot of great poetry that contributed to the history of plays and poetry.

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Marlowe was a famous play write back when Shakespeare was creating music and earning a reputation for himself. Shakespeare used a lot of phrases and quotes similar to those of Christopher Marlowe. For example “I ’m armed with more than complete steel,—The justice of my quarrel.”(Christopher Marlowe Lust’s Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4)

Shakespeare had said in one of his plays “Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though locked up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.(William Shakespeare: Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2)

The similarities between the two are overwhelming, bits and pieces of Marlowe’s famous piece are intertwined in Shakespeare’s play Henry the fifth. Also in 1593 Marlowe died in a bar brawl were he was stabbed to death. Rumors where going around that Marlowe had worked as a spy for the Crown so a “staged death” would be an appropriate way of hiding any evidence of him being employed by the crown. Also with the added evidence of Shakespeare’s quotes having vary similar wording and meaning it is likely that Marlowe staged his death and wrote poetry under the alias of William Shakespeare.

Did Shakespeare write the poetry?

There is an academic view that somebody besides Shakespeare wrote the plays, that maybe a serious scholar might have written the plays. Some of them might be Christopher Marlowe, Edward De Vere, and Francis Bacon. The argument is that Shakespeare was too low-born, too uneducated, or too unlikely for the play. Some educated noble or Renaissance scholar wrote the plays himself or herself, and then paid Shakespeare to claim they were his works, or has invented him as a made up person. People Also think that he didnt write them because they were very well written and he used such serious and storng words that he just could not of written them without have a well educated life. thats some reasons why people a scholars think that he might not of written them.


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