Me and my friend are always arguing about bloody shakespeare...he says that his lifetime was too short for the amount of works he produced. I'm English and he is Turkish ...of course I'm not going to believe this rubbish...(they are jealous of our literature!!! hehe :p)
2007-02-28 22:22:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I have just been re-reading some books about the other claimants to Shakespeare, and I have taught a course on this at the college level.
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. He may have had some collaborators on some of his earliest works, but he wrote almost all of it. There is a fair amount of mentions of him by his contemporaries, and we have other mentions and notes about him.
The real reason people do not believe that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare normally boils down to snobbery. Or jelousy if you wish to twit your Turkish friend. How could a man without a university education, and not high-born, have produced some of the most beautiful literature the world has ever seen.
If you want to read up on other claimants on Shakespeare, there is a wonderful chapter in Samuel Schoenbaum 's "Shakespeare's Lives." It's easy to read and probably available at your local public library, or local college library.
The Turks have some good literature too. A Turk won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, Orhan Pamuk, and although he is not quite Shakespeare, he is VERY good.
2007-02-28 22:46:53 · answer #1 · answered by jcboyle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course you are right .
He lived and married Anne Hathaway.
Many handwritten documents by Shakespere still exist. There were also many contempory writngs and critiques about his work, that were written during his lifetime in Elizabethan England.
2007-03-01 06:32:56 · answer #2 · answered by sistablu...Maat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Keep in Mind that Shakespeare also had a period in his life that was called "the lost years." It's possible that he could have written plays during that period of time too.
2007-03-01 11:04:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course Shakespeare really existed. How could he not?
2007-03-01 09:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by buttercuppeepersgilda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im pretty sure he existed, but he wrote most of his work over lapping with his other works, and he wrote alot of his plays over sleepless nights on tour
2007-03-01 06:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I only have one question for you......
Did You Have American Literature or Literature Class..??????
Because this question is making you look Ignorant...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-01 06:37:06 · answer #6 · answered by popo dean 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rebus:your a numpty and he does exist! hes a legend! i mean how was Romeo and Juliet written? Do i have to say it again LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-01 06:30:36 · answer #7 · answered by Charlotte 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋