Do you believe Shakespeare wrote all those plays?

Question

I think it was Marlow. Othres say Bacon or The Earl of Oxford. A new panel of scholars are digging into it in a major way, again.

Acclaimed actor Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance, the former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theater in London, unveiled a "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt" on the authorship of Shakespeare's work Saturday, following the final matinee of "I am Shakespeare," a play investigating the bard's identity, in Chichester, southern England.

In the Yahoo news today, which you must have seen.

But if Marlowe was the most likely ghost writer, he was murdered fairly young so he couldn't talk. Yeh, i think it was Marlowe. Makes sense.

Answer 1

I believe it was Shakespeare, but in a bigger sense, who cares? Somebody wrote those plays and we should celebrate their brilliance every time we see one of them. Thanks.

Answer 2

Shakespeare's colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell who prepared 'The First Folio' in 1623 (actual title, 'Mr. William Shakespeares [sic] Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies') certainly thought so. And most academic circles accept Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. But like the 'Kennedy assassination conspiracy', countless theories abound and interest in the matter is likely to continue, as proof either way is unlikely to be forthcoming.
For myself, I'll go with Will, until there is definite proof otherwise.

Answer 3

I don't think we will ever know for sure. I just read a book about the controversy, and they had some interesting facts. When Shakespeare died, they didn't even run a story in the Stratford newspaper about his death. Normally, whenever a famous author dies, the entire London theater business shuts down, and nothing of the kind happened for Shakespeare. It was very odd.

Answer 4

Basically people have been trying to prove that it wasnt Shakespeare at all who wrote the stuff because of his lifestyle and so forth. If you hear what people are trying to prove who is the real Shakespeare then it kind of adds up. People have been investigating this theory for years.

Answer 5

yes, i do belive. thers historical evidence to prove it.