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Is there any proof Sir Francis Bacon wrote many of William Shakespeare works?
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There is no proof whatsoever that Bacon ever wrote any of Shakespeare's works. Indeed, it is a ridiculous idea if you compare the things Bacon wrote with those Shakespeare did. The styles are totally different. It's like saying the works of James Joyce were written by Stephen Hawking. The Baconians, like their latter-day successors, the Oxfordians, offered up as the main "proof" of their goofy theory an elaborate code or cipher in which Bacon's authorship was secretly revealed in Shakespeare's First Folio.
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What part of the play Hamlet did shakespeare play?
There is an old story that Shakespeare played the Ghost, however, there is no documentary proof of that. So it may or may not be true.
What did Shakespeare do before he joined the theatre?
There are some lost years of Shakespeare before he began his acting and writing career. There are stories that have Shakespeare minding the horses outside of London theaters and another story that he was a schoolmaster. There is no proof that he was either of those things.
Who is the most popular anti-Stratfordian candidate for Romeo and Juliet?
Anti-Stratfordians are people who believe that for some person other than William Shakespeare wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet. Nobody has yet advanced the claim that each one of Shakespeare's plays was really written by a different playwright that was not Shakespeare, so that the Henry VI plays were written by Peele, Titus Andronicus by Kyd, The Merry Wives of Windsor by Dekker, Much Ado About Nothing by Jonson and so on. Therefore there is no "anti-Stratfordian candidate for Romeo and Juliet". Anti-Stratfordians generally attack each piece of evidence connecting Shakespeare with his plays to show that there really is no proof that he wrote them. They often add to that that the author of the plays must have been better educated or more aristocratic than Wm. Shakespeare, depending on whether they are intellectual snobs or social snobs. Picking holes in the idea that Shakespeare wrote his plays is relatively easy compared to finding evidence of the authorship of the plays that does not point to Shakespeare. Nevertheless a number of people have been proposed. Francis Bacon was a strong contender in the nineteenth century, and Christopher Marlowe has had a few votes. The leading contender at the present time is Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, notwithstanding the fact that he died before a number of the Shakespeare plays were produced, leading to the theory that he wrote about ten plays in a frenzy just before his death and then had them leaked out gradually over the next eight years or so. This is the leading theory, and it's that crazy.
Did Shakespeare get caught poaching?
There are three 17th century accounts of Shakespeare poaching on the estate of Thomas Lucy. Thomas Caryle refers to it in his book, LECTURES ON HEROES. There is no sound proof that the stories are true.
Why people think William Shakespeare isn't real?
There is evidence or lack of evidence that Shakespeare ever existed. Some feel that his works were written by someone else (such as Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford). It is known that Shakespeare did not invent the story of Romeo and Juliet. It was originally a plodding poem by Arthur Brooks. However, Shakespeare made it his own.
Who did William Shakespeare play in Hamlet?
There's an old story that he might have played the Ghost, but we have no proof of that, so nobody really knows.
Did Shakespeare actually write the plays that everyone thinks he did?
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.
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What part of the play Hamlet did shakespeare play?
There is an old story that Shakespeare played the Ghost, however, there is no documentary proof of that. So it may or may not be true.
What did William Shakespeare write?
William Shakespeare wrote plays, narrative poems and a particular type of poem called sonnets. William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, 2 poetic narratives with erotic themes (The Rape of Lucrece, and Venus and Adonis), and at least two other poems . He wrote 38 plays at least. It has been suggested, without any proof whatsoever, that the Bard may have functioned as an advisor in the language editing-grammatical aspects of the now-familiar King James Bible. Since Shakespeare was not a Biblical scholar, and knew "small Latin and less Greek" his usefulness on such a project would be minimal. This story, like the idea that he was familiar with Elizabeth I, is wishful fantasy.
What did Shakespeare do before he joined the theatre?
There are some lost years of Shakespeare before he began his acting and writing career. There are stories that have Shakespeare minding the horses outside of London theaters and another story that he was a schoolmaster. There is no proof that he was either of those things.
Who is the most popular anti-Stratfordian candidate for Romeo and Juliet?
Anti-Stratfordians are people who believe that for some person other than William Shakespeare wrote all of Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet. Nobody has yet advanced the claim that each one of Shakespeare's plays was really written by a different playwright that was not Shakespeare, so that the Henry VI plays were written by Peele, Titus Andronicus by Kyd, The Merry Wives of Windsor by Dekker, Much Ado About Nothing by Jonson and so on. Therefore there is no "anti-Stratfordian candidate for Romeo and Juliet". Anti-Stratfordians generally attack each piece of evidence connecting Shakespeare with his plays to show that there really is no proof that he wrote them. They often add to that that the author of the plays must have been better educated or more aristocratic than Wm. Shakespeare, depending on whether they are intellectual snobs or social snobs. Picking holes in the idea that Shakespeare wrote his plays is relatively easy compared to finding evidence of the authorship of the plays that does not point to Shakespeare. Nevertheless a number of people have been proposed. Francis Bacon was a strong contender in the nineteenth century, and Christopher Marlowe has had a few votes. The leading contender at the present time is Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, notwithstanding the fact that he died before a number of the Shakespeare plays were produced, leading to the theory that he wrote about ten plays in a frenzy just before his death and then had them leaked out gradually over the next eight years or so. This is the leading theory, and it's that crazy.
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Did Shakespeare get caught poaching?
There are three 17th century accounts of Shakespeare poaching on the estate of Thomas Lucy. Thomas Caryle refers to it in his book, LECTURES ON HEROES. There is no sound proof that the stories are true.
Why people think William Shakespeare isn't real?
There is evidence or lack of evidence that Shakespeare ever existed. Some feel that his works were written by someone else (such as Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford). It is known that Shakespeare did not invent the story of Romeo and Juliet. It was originally a plodding poem by Arthur Brooks. However, Shakespeare made it his own.
Did William Shakespeare write a play for his dead son?
Wood speculates that some of the Sonnets are for/about Hamnet, but there is no absolute proof. There is even less proof to suggest that any of the commercial plays were personal except in the sense that all artists mine their own experiences and emotions when creating their art, but not necessarily a direct representation of their life's events. Art as a mirror of the artist is a post-Freudian phenomenon.
