Was Shakespeare Real or Not
Who is the man behind the mask? That is a question that many have asked. The mask that I am referring to is that of William Shakespeare. The authorship question has been pondered since the 1780s, when the Reverend James Wilmot spent four wasted years trying to link Shakespeare to the works attributed to him. Many potential candidates along with several completely random names have been proposed as the "real" author of the plays and sonnets we relate to William Shakespeare. Several leading candidates include the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Southampton, Francis Bacon, and a few others have been suggested, although less of a thought has been given to them. One idea suggests that the name Shakespeare was really the hyphenated pseudonym "William Shake-speare." A popular belief is that Shake-speare is in reference to Athena, who had the nickname Spear Shaker. This also leads to the pseudonym idea because one of Athena's powers was that she could be invisible. Others have also pointed out that the spear could serve also as a dual purpose. The spear is also another way to describe a pen. So, what better pen name in a time when writers were highly criticized then the invisible Spear Shaker or Shak
Shakspere's life of fifty-two years. Golding and his nephew shared a close literary friendship: he dedicated his Histories of Trogus Pompeius to Oxford in 1564, and his Psalms in 1573. By the time he was fourteen, he had his first degree. Then at the age of twelve, his father died, making him the seventeenth Earl of Oxford. It was done on Edward de Vere's heavily marked and annotated Geneva Bible. According to Sobran, "We know that Oxford was tutored there (in London) in several subjects; a typical day's schedule included dancing, French, Latin, writing and drawing, cosmography, exercise with his pen, and common prayers. In 1596, Shakspere shows up in the tax records as a resident of Southwark. In a time when writers were imprisoned and mutilated for committing "literary excesses or violating political correctness", many wrote anonymously. '* Similarly terse entries record the christenings of his three brothers and two sisters. He has many of the qualities that many feel are necessary for one who would write the masterpieces that were attributed to Shakespeare. " (Sobran 111) According to Mark Anderson, "By the age of twenty, Edward de Vere had received two masters' degrees and studied law for three years. " According to Anderson, "The words 'full of bread' have long been recognized by Shakespeare scholars of all persuasions as a reference to the Bible, specifically to Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 49. The man many believe to be Shakespeare at best had only a grammar school education, and he is not known to have traveled beyond Stratford and London. In addition, no birth certificate was ever found. How could he have accumulated the vast knowledge of royalty, court life, politics, and foreign lands-particularly of Italy, where several plays are set? Whoever wrote the plays and sonnets had a rare breadth of knowledge in numerous disciplines, including physical sciences, medicine, the law, astronomy, and the Bible.
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