Was Shakespeare really Shakespeare

Allen

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Shakespeare was a woman?

Most people don’t think about asking questions about William Shakespeare as a play right. However, there is actually a huge controversy surrounding the man. While he is supposedly an accomplished playwright it appears that he has never owned book, written a letter much less a play.  Furthermore he was not an educated man, also Shakespeare was the name of an actor in the company and it is impossible to say if he was the same man or a different one that wrote the plays.

The Oxfordians are a group of people that believe Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the man who wrote the Shakespeare plays. He was a well-traveled Nobleman and well educated man who they believe to be more likely to have written the plays. Seeing as Shakespeare was a no name man in a small town.   While the Stratfordians believe that of course, William Shakespeare wrote his own works leave him alone.  The globe was in his name, and was given a coat of arms for his works. He was proven to be a real person and then to further anger the Oxfordians it is pointed out that this would not be the first uneducated man rising above what is supposed to happen to them.

Christopher Marlowe he was a Victorian tragedy writer the best of his time. He was supposedly William Shakespeare greatest inspiration. Though they were born in the same years Marlowe received a better education. He was an alleged government spy. Even his autobiography had the word spy in i

I can’t pick a side because neither has been proven right or wrong and I 

personally would love to believe that Shakespeare was indeed the author 

of his own works. However, there is a strong opposition and I can’t bring 

myself to rule it out. It was so far back in history that it is difficult to track.  

It is a topic for the oxfordians and the stratfordians to debate and discuss.


Why would someone want to use the name of a poor boy from no where to 

publish their writing?



Do you side with the Oxfordian or the stratfordian side? Do you believe there is a right or wrong? Should we even be questioning?





Sources


https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Oxfordian_theory.html

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/shakepeareauthorship.html