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Who is the real writer of the Shakespeare plays and sonnets?

William Shakespeare wrote all the plays and sonnets, they have been saying that bard wrote them but William shakespeare fact wrote all of them.


Who plays moon in the real Shakespeare play Pyramus and Thisbe?

Moonshine is played by R. Starveling.


What famous people doubt that Shakespeare was the real and the only author of his plays?

The Shakespearean actors Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance do. They are not exactly trained in assessing historical evidence.


Was Shakespeare fake?

No. You see, what we start with is a number of publications of play scripts as well as contemporary anecdotes and diary entries about those plays. These plays were said to have been written by William Shakespeare. Was there a real person called William Shakespeare? Yes, no question. Was he a real actor? Yes, lots of people seem to have recorded that fact. Did he act in the same company that the publishers of the plays did? Yes, unquestionably. Was his name associated with these plays as well as various poems during his lifetime as the author? Yes, and by a lot of different people, too. So Shakespeare is not a fake in the sense that Lemony Snicket is a fake--the author of his plays and poems did not invent a fake person to name as the author. William Shakespeare was a real person, and a well-known one to boot. It is one thing to use a fake name as a pen-name (like Lemony Snicket) if your real name is Daniel Handler, but another altogether for Daniel Handler to write A Series of Unfortunate Events by J.K. Rowling. You can be sure that Ms. Rowling would raise a stink about that. And in fact the real William Shakespeare did raise a stink about people publishing other people's poetry and claiming that it was written by him.


Was William Shakespeare a myth?

Shakespeare was a real person. We have the records of his baptism, his ownership of property, his marriage, the birth of his children and his burial. You can visit his grave, millions do. Some people try to claim that the real man Shakespeare was not the same person as the playwright Shakespeare, but this doesn't make him a myth.

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Were any of William Shakespeare's plays real?

Shakespeare's history plays were based on real events.


What does Shakespeare ask rosaline?

Shakespeare was a real person who wrote plays and poetry. Rosaline is a shadowy character in one of the plays he wrote. Real people cannot converse with fictional people: President Obama cannot talk to Batman.


How did they set people on fire in Shakespeare plays?

they used a picture behind to make it look real but it is'nt real.


Who is the real writer of the Shakespeare plays and sonnets?

William Shakespeare wrote all the plays and sonnets, they have been saying that bard wrote them but William shakespeare fact wrote all of them.


Who do some people believe wrote Shakespere's plays?

Most people believe that Shakespeare's plays were written by Shakespeare, who was a documented real person, and whose playwriting abilities were praised by Ben Johnson among others. However, there are people who believe that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays and then used his name as a pseudonym. Key contenders are the noble art patron Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford and the educated lawyer, Francis Bacon.


Who plays moon in the real Shakespeare play Pyramus and Thisbe?

Moonshine is played by R. Starveling.


What famous people doubt that Shakespeare was the real and the only author of his plays?

The Shakespearean actors Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance do. They are not exactly trained in assessing historical evidence.


What disease did William Shakespeare go through?

We do not know of any diseases which Shakespeare suffered from. People have guessed, of course, that he suffered from one disease or another, but there is no real evidence on which to base an opinion. There were, of course, a number of diseases rampant at the time. There were periodic plague outbreaks which accounted for some members of Shakespeare's family, particularly his sister Anne and his brother Edmund. The disease which Shakespeare refers to more than any other in his plays is syphilis, which was a recently imported STD affecting a large number of people especially in the city, even members of the royal family.


Was Shakespeare actually real?

Yes, but there is a question as to whether he wrote the plays attributed to him. This doubt is known as the authorship quandry


Who is responsible for the fate of Shakespeare's characters?

Shakespeare, of course. He wrote them. They are not real people; Shakespeare did not have to tell Mercutio "Listen, if you don't behave, you die in Act III"


Was Shakespeare fake?

No. You see, what we start with is a number of publications of play scripts as well as contemporary anecdotes and diary entries about those plays. These plays were said to have been written by William Shakespeare. Was there a real person called William Shakespeare? Yes, no question. Was he a real actor? Yes, lots of people seem to have recorded that fact. Did he act in the same company that the publishers of the plays did? Yes, unquestionably. Was his name associated with these plays as well as various poems during his lifetime as the author? Yes, and by a lot of different people, too. So Shakespeare is not a fake in the sense that Lemony Snicket is a fake--the author of his plays and poems did not invent a fake person to name as the author. William Shakespeare was a real person, and a well-known one to boot. It is one thing to use a fake name as a pen-name (like Lemony Snicket) if your real name is Daniel Handler, but another altogether for Daniel Handler to write A Series of Unfortunate Events by J.K. Rowling. You can be sure that Ms. Rowling would raise a stink about that. And in fact the real William Shakespeare did raise a stink about people publishing other people's poetry and claiming that it was written by him.


Was William Shakespeare a myth?

Shakespeare was a real person. We have the records of his baptism, his ownership of property, his marriage, the birth of his children and his burial. You can visit his grave, millions do. Some people try to claim that the real man Shakespeare was not the same person as the playwright Shakespeare, but this doesn't make him a myth.