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Who was really Shakespeare?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Virtually everybody who has studied the matter has concluded that there is sufficient evidence that William Shakespeare, son of John Shakespeare of Stratford, was the noted poet and playwright and that he wrote Venus and Adonis, The Rape of the Lock, the sonnets and the thirty-six plays attributed to him in the First Folio as well as Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen. There is no plausible evidence of any kind that anyone else wrote them.

Anti-Stratfordians (those who do not accept William Shakespeare of Stratford as the author) spend most of their time trying to find loopholes in the evidence linking the playwright to Stratford, but precious little making any kind of case for an alternate author.

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15y ago

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