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Mar 16, 2018 · Christopher Marlowe. He was born in the same year as Shakespeare, but died around the same time that Shakespeare started to write his plays. Marlowe was England’s best playwright until Shakespeare came along – perhaps he didn’t die and continued writing under a different name?
- Lee Jamieson
Jul 3, 2008 · He says the most powerful evidence of authorship is the simplest: that the name William Shakespeare appeared on some of the plays published during his lifetime.
- Renee Montagne
As for William Shakespeare, I believe he may have been the main author of the “Shakespeare Apocrypha,” a group of plays that were attributed to William S. by his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, but now excluded from the Shakespeare canon.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, was a patron of literature, music, and theatrical players, hailed by other writers of his time as a fine playwright and poet. He was at the center of Elizabethan literary life, acquainted with key personalities depicted in the works of “Shakespeare.”.
May 26, 2020 · But some scholars and even fellow writers are skeptical that Shakespeare wrote any of his celebrated sonnets or plays, and that “Shakespeare” was actually a pseudonym used to disguise the true...
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate.
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May 20, 2018 · That was in 1593, right at the start of William Shakespeare’s career. Historians say Shakespeare then went on to write 37 plays, all of them memorable and some, such as Henry V, The Tempest, A...
