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All of the evidence we have goes to say that he did. That is to say, all of the plays were published either without an author's name or with Shakespeare's name on them, and never with anyone else's name. They were exclusively performed by theatrical companies of which the actor William Shakespeare was a member, and were published by members of that company. Records of the same plays being played at court and elsewhere credit William Shakespeare with having written them. And never anyone else.
On the other hand there is no evidence that anyone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford, the actor with the King's Men, wrote those plays. Nobody ever credits them to anyone else. There was nobody else by the name of William Shakespeare that we know of and nobody else called Shakespeare who was a writer. People did not write plays under a pseudonym in those days, and nobody at that time ever suggested that "William Shakespeare" was a pseudonym.
You may say that is not absolute proof. Perhaps not, but absolute proof is not required for anything which we regularly accept as true. The proof that Shakespeare did indeed write what he is credited with is more than sufficient for us to accept it as fact.
What else can I help you with?
Were Shakespeare's plays performed only on Sundays and holidays?
Actually, they were less likely to be performed on Sunday when everyone had to go to church (that was the law). The same applies to holidays.
What is a 3 to 5 sentence summary for one of Shakespeare's plays?
everyone dies
Why did Shakespeare write the history plays?
They were popular. Shakespeare won much of his earliest success with his Henry VI plays. Actually, history plays are still popular. Or have you not heard of The Tudors?
Who is the narrator on glee?
Everyone thinks it's the actor (Matthew Morrison) who plays Mr. Schuester but it's actually one of the writers called Ian Brennan. They sound very similar!
Am I the only girl who can actually understand shakespeare?
No! I am very fond of Shakespeare and have read 5 of his plays. He is a very skilled writer.
Why did Shakespeare's plays appeal to everyone?
Shakespeare's plays appeal to us because the language he used and the way he wrote was full of techniques and meaning. He used Greek mythology and the Elizabethan ages to set his stories.
Did Hamnet Shakespeare's death affect William Shakespeare?
It probably did, but if so it was not reflected in the plays which Shakespeare was writing at the time of Hamnet's death, viz. around 1596. Shakespeare was very close about his feelings and did not tell everyone about them (of if he did, they did not make note of it).
Why do people think someone else didn't write the plays for him?
What a strange and bass-ackward question this one is! Here is the main fact: almost everyone thinks Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays. The main reason is the same reason why most people think that Beethoven wrote Beethoven's symphonies and that J.K.Rowling wrote the Harry Potter stories. Shakespeare is the credited author of his plays. They were published during his lifetime and credited to him. Our default assumption is that he wrote them. If there were any really persuasive evidence otherwise we might challenge that assumption. It's up to the doubters to bring solid evidence that someone other than Shakespeare wrote those plays.
What would Shakespeare have seen in Ovid that you can see in his plays?
Stories. Shakespeare (and most everyone else) studied Ovid in school so they could readily allude to his stories.
Did Shakespeare have a dog?
Actually, Shakespeare did have a dog and he named a character in one of his plays after his dog. The dog was called "Titus" and was the source of inspiration for Shakespeare's my violent and worse plays, Titus Andronicus. It is unclear whether Shakespeare hated his dog or not, but he did eat it. Probably, he ate it.
Why was there roman influence in Shakespeare's literature?
Shakespeare wrote plays about Roman history because he and everyone else had studied those stories at school and so had some idea what was going on.
Why is it important that people understand Shakespeare's theater?
Understanding Shakespeare's Theatre helps one to understand his plays and why they were written in the way they were. This in turn is enormously important as educated persons the world over understand at least the most well-known of Shakespeare's plays, and everyone knows and constantly quotes lines drawn from those plays. Answer: It is not important.
