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The real author behind Shakespeare's plays and poems has been subject to a controversy dating back about 150 years. The so-called "Anti-Stratfordians" maintain that Shakespeare, with his provincial background (from Stratford-upon-Avon) could not possibly have collected sufficient knowledge and education to be accountable for his body of work. The most popular candidates as the Bard's ghostwriters are Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604); the latter being favored by some on the grounds of Shakespeare's complete lack of productivity during the last decade of his life until 1616.
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∙ 9y agoThere is a large controversy behind the writing of some of Shakespeare's best work. Some scholars believe Shakespeare lacked the knowledge to write the context in his plays. It is believed that?æFrancis Bacon and Edward de Vere were the two writers who helping write the Bard.
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∙ 11y agoIt was said that Christopher Marlowe was a Shakespeare writer. It was also said Edward de Vere wrote under a pen name of Shakespeare. And of course there is Francis Bacon.
Of course there are problems in that both Marlowe and de Vere died before Shakespeare's best work appeared (in the case of Marlowe, before any of Shakespeare's significant work appeared). And as for Bacon, the majority of his writing style was so totally different from Shakespeare's that it is inconcievable he could have written Shakespeare's plays.
And of course there is the fact that there is no good reason to believe that anyone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
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