William Shakespeare, came from someone who was unfamiliar with writing his own name. These signatures are on legal documents only, not on any manuscripts (Bethell, 1991).
Two characteristics of the Shakespeare literature suggest that the author was a man of power and class, rather than a small-town burgher. One of these is his attitude. The author displays hardly any sympathy for the "class of upwardly mobile strivers" of which William was a member. He regards to commoners as humorous individually or alarming in groups. The second is t
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