Thursday, December 9, 2010

Shakespeare's authenticity

Shakespeare is often recognized as the best english writer of all time. However, many scholars contest his authenticity. According to them, shakespeare couldn't know the royal life so well because he was lived among other social class, hardky ever getting in touch with the royalty.
This theory has never been proved, but there are some authors that are recognized as the most probable real "shakespeare"

-Edward de Vere: a comteporary of shakespeare, was a member of Elizabeth I's court an is recognized is the most probable author to write shakespeare plays since 1930. Scholars compare some of his characters wit shakespeare's, for instance, Polonius (Hamlet) and the Earl's gardian (William Cecil).

-Francis Bancon: the philosopher and writer is one of the potetial candidates to be the real author. However, he had a very occupied life wth his own studies that is in probable that he wold have spare time to produce plays with such quality as Hamlet and Othello.

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