William Shakespeare?

Question

In class we are reading 4 of Shakespeares plays- Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Taming of the Shrew. ( If thats how you spell it) But I found out about the conflict between if Shakespeare existed or not. You know how many people think Edward de Vere wrote the plays and poems and used William Shakespeare as a pen name right? And then the person actually name William Shakespeare was given the credit for the fabulous plays and stuff, but did he write them? Actually, the person named William spelled his las name "Shakspere". But whats strange is that between 1608 and 1620, 5 plays were written by Shakespeare, and Edward de Vere was already dead. What do you believe? Do you believe the real person William Shakspere , who went to elementary school only, wrote these works of art? Or do you think Edward de Vere wrote these and used William Shakespeare as a pen name?

Answer 1

I believe it was the real William Shakespeare who wrote all those plays. During their time, there was no television, cellphones, PSP, and all those stuff we have today. Their means of spending leisure time is limited. The most popular is watching plays written by people like Shakespeare. These playwrights became popular regardless of their educational attinment. Among these people, William Shakespeare was the greatest. For me, he was a genius. He left us with all those precious works of art (38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long narrative poems). Through history we learn this and we must admit, we owe a lot to him today.

Answer 2

pls give a look about william shakespeare and what me was...................Then u come to know about.................... William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, a successful glover and alderman originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning farmer.[5] He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised on 26 April 1564. His unknown birthday is traditionally observed on 23 April, St George's Day.[6] This date, which can be traced back to an eighteenth-century scholar's mistake, has proved appealing because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616.[7] He was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son Authorship Around 150 years after Shakespeare's death, doubts began to emerge about the authorship of Shakespeare's works.[171] Alternative candidates proposed include Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, and Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford.[172] Although all alternative candidates are almost universally rejected in academic circles, popular interest in the subject, particularly the Oxfordian theory, has continued into the 21st century.[173] Religion Some scholars claim that members of Shakespeare's family were Catholics, at a time when Catholic practice was against the law,[174] Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, certainly came from a pious Catholic family. The strongest evidence might be a Catholic statement of faith signed by John Shakespeare, found in 1757 in the rafters of his former house in Henley Street. The document is now lost, however, and scholars differ on its authenticity.[175] In 1591, the authorities reported that John had missed church "for fear of process for debt", a common Catholic excuse.[176] In 1606, William's daughter Susanna was listed among those who failed to attend Easter communion in Stratford.[176] Scholars find evidence both for and against Shakespeare's Catholicism in his plays, but the truth may be impossible to prove either way.[177] Sexuality Few details of Shakespeare's sexuality are known. At 18, he married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, who was pregnant. Susanna, the first of their three children, was born six months later on 26 May 1583. However, over the centuries readers have pointed to Shakespeare's sonnets as evidence of his love for a young man. Others read the same passages as the expression of intense friendship rather than sexual love.[178] At the same time, the twenty-six so-called "Dark Lady" sonnets, addressed to a married woman, are taken as evidence of heterosexual liaisons.[179]

Answer 3

People make way too much of the different ways "Shakespeare" was spelled. Hard as this is to imagine, there was simply wasn't fixed spelling like we have today; people spelled things different ways, based on how a word sounded to them, how they were used to seeing it, how they were using the word...people would even spell a word different ways in the same letter. The Oxford gang is really good at grabbing little "facts" from the historical record and completely misinterpreting them, creating rules that apply one way for Oxford and another way for Shakespeare. It's pointless and annoying, but I guess we're stuck with it. Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory.



But, back to names--Shakespeare's name was most often spelled just like that: Shakespeare (almost 3 times as often as any other spelling). The most common variations were Shakespear and Shakspere. If you think that means he wasn't a real person, or was two different people, consider that Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, signed his name both "Oxford" and "Oxenford" all the time--so he must be two people, too!



As for school, Shakespeare went to a grammar school in Stratford, where, after learning his ABC's, he mostly studied Latin and Greek. Oxfordians like to paint him as some kind of illiterate country bumpkin, but, come on, people, his father was the Mayor of Stratford! He did OK. When you read his plays, you see a lot of classical references, but they keep coming from the same handfull of books--Ovid's Metamorphoses, Plutarch's Lives, that sort of thing. You want to guess which books he would have read in grammar school?

Answer 4

Having no way to associate with Shakespeare, the person as opposed to writer, I couldn't care less who actually penned the works attributed to him. I'm just very grateful that SOMEBODY did.

As for his schooling, the relative scarcity of subjects to study would have enabled concentration on history and the Classics - subjects of direct use to him.

Answer 5

I heard the same thing, but in the rumour I heard, it was Francis Bacon who actually did "Shakespeare's" work.

I think that Shakespeare did write everything that has his name on it (my guess anyways!)

Answer 6

i think he wrote them and after he died had a family member start publishing them one by one but that is just what i think