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Delia Bacon was the first writer to formulate a comprehensive theory that Shakespeare was not the writer of the works attributed to him. Shakespeare's authorship was first openly questioned in the pages of Joseph C. Hart's The Romance of Yachting (1848).
- Authorship Candidate 1: Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626
- Authorship Candidate 2: Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550-1604
- Authorship Candidate 3: Christopher Marlowe, 1564 -1593
- Authorship Candidate 4: William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, 1561-1642
- Authorship Candidate 5: Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, 1576-1612
- Authorship Candidate 6: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, 1561-1621
Sir Francis Bacon – the essayist, scientist, and writer of New Atlantis – was the first alternative candidate proposed as the true author of Shakespeare’s plays in 1856. There is little evidence to suggest this, though what ‘evidence’ there is takes the form of some similarities in Shakespeare’s plays to his own, and the circumstantial ‘fact’ that ...
Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford was a courtier poet. There is little strong evidence that suggests he wrote Shakespeare’s plays, but some believe there are references in both the plays and sonnets to de Vere’s life, as well as a series of codes in the writing that implicate the Earl as the author to those in the know. These theories as to w...
The playwright Christopher Marlowe was writing at the same time as Shakespeare and it’s highly likely that the two had met each other. The Marlowvian theory – first presented by Wilbur Zeigler in 1895 – states that reports of Marlowe’s death in a drunken brawl on 30 May 1593 were falsified to protect him from going to prison for being an atheist. M...
Derby’s candidacy was first proposed in 1891 by the archivist James H. Greenstreet, who identified a pair of 1599 letters which reported that Derby was unlikely to advance the Catholic cause as he was “busy penning plays for the common players.” Greenstreet further argued that the comic scenes in Love’s Labour’s Lostwere influenced by a pageant of ...
In the early 20th century, Roger Manners the 5th Earl of Rutland was proposed as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays by Karl Bleibtreu, a German literary critic – later supported by a number of other authors. Manners married the daughter of the poet Philip Sydney and it is thought that the two of them together wrote the plays. How...
On account of her literary talents and strong family connections to Shakespeare, Mary Sidney Herbert is one of the writers who have been linked to the Shakespeare authorship debate/conspiracy. The First Folio is dedicated to Mary Sidney’s two sons, the “incomparable brethren,” neither of whom had otherwise been connected to Shakespeare previously. ...
William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
2 de abr. de 2024 · Known throughout the world, Shakespeare’s works—at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems—capture the range of human emotion and conflict and have been celebrated for more than 400...
Hace 3 días · William Shakespeare. English author. Also known as: Bard of Avon, Swan of Avon, William Shakspere. Terence John Bew Spencer. Professor of English Language and Literature, 1958–78; Director, Shakespeare Institute, 1961–78, University of Birmingham, England. General Editor, The New Penguin Shakespeare and the Penguin Shakespeare...
16 de mar. de 2018 · The William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon and the William Shakespeare working in London were two separate people. They have been falsely connected by historians. Someone called William Shakespeare did work with Burbage’s theater company at The Globe, but did not write the plays.
3 de jul. de 2008 · Well, there's something that makes modern-day scholars of Shakespeare want to riot: when anyone questions whether the man from Stratford-upon-Avon really wrote the works that bear his name.
