Debates are still raging on whether Shakespeare actually wrote those classic texts. That is good fodder for English literature professors to ruminate about as they sip coffee. Their argument has often been that a not-so-well-read ninny could not have such creative imagination and artistic talent to pen those masterpieces. Hence, either it was Marlow, Ben Jonson or some group of professors who congregated to write those books! That sounds believable as far as their rating goes.
What is undeniable is that whoever had the brains and talent to write Hamlet, Othello, The Merchant of Venice and those sonnets was actually a genius. That should suffice for now the rest we can idle talk about at coffee time or at an introduction.
good luck
2007-09-20 02:42:06
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answered by ari-pup 7
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I will contribute a little but I agree with your first responder -- do your own homework (Suppose somebody got on here and told you he was a famous German playwright fom the 1850s?)
He's not. He's English 1564-1616 and perhaps the greatest playwright of all time. And althoughsome people would like to think that a simple country bumpkin could never write convincingly about the English court without having experienced it, let me ask you this -- do you think JK Rowling went to Hogwarts? The gap between what we know and what we write can be bridged with imagination and genius; Shakespeare had both. He wrote 38 plays -- not 37 and about 150 sonnets. He was also an actor which explains why he was so great a playwright -- he'd probablt been on stage saying good lines and bad and knew the difference
2007-09-20 03:13:17
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answered by actormyk 6
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Yes, Shakespeare was really the tanner's son from Stratford-on-Avon he is traditionally presumed to be. The contrary theories are generally built on air.
After all, the circle of people actively involved in the theatre in London circa 1600 must have been very small and gossip must have made its way around very quickly. Secrets would have been hard to keep in that world.
Consider New York today. The same people are involved in Broadway productions year after year, they all know each other, and they don't really have secrets from one another.
So what, you might ask? So this ... if a Noble Lord, like Bacon or Oxford or the other candidates for being the ghost writer of "Shakespeares" plays, had actualy been ghosting them, he would have needed collaborators within that world. They would have been sitting on a huge secret. I think over time everybody would have come to know it.
The conspiracy theories presume a capacity for covertness that seldom exists in this sort of context, IMHO. So, the real author of Shakespeares works was most likely, Shakespeare himself.
2007-09-20 01:59:27
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answered by Christopher F 6
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You must be joking. Write a long report for you? Whatever class it is you're taking, just accept the "F".
Is Shakespeare a real writer.....
2007-09-20 01:58:07
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answered by Gravedigger 3
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Shakespeare is a brill ant novelist, poet, and lover of humanity. And yes, he did write and composed a hundred of beautiful and profound poems, novels, plays and tragedies. Why don't you search for his biography on the Internet to get to know this wonderful artist.
2007-09-20 03:43:51
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answered by catcher 2
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Honestly, English professors laugh at attempts to prove that Shakespeare didn't write his plays; the argument tends to be one that buzzes around the high school level where students don't know any better.
2007-09-20 03:11:40
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answered by Lambert Lewis Strether 2
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Shakespeare is a famous playwrite. He wrote many tragedies, and they were inspired by things in different cultures, and different times.
2007-09-20 03:02:01
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answered by Anonymous
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There are multiple sites devoted to Shakespeare's life and works. Look them up.
2007-09-20 04:04:26
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answered by irish1 6
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