Who do some critics believe actually wrote Shakespeares plays?

Answer 1

About 99 per cent of people and 100 per cent of people who are actual scholars of Shakespeare believe that Shakespeare's plays were written by one William Shakespeare of Stratford, glover's son and actor.

The other one percent of people think that the plays were written by a number of people including the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon, Queen Elizabeth and others even more far-fetched and ridiculous.
Francis Bacon, Chritopher Marlowe,Queen Elizabeth I, or the 17th Earl of Oxford Edward de Vesre.

Answer 2

1. William Shakespeare

Even other playwrights said he wrote them including Ben Jonson, a competing playwright.

2. Christopher Marlowe

He was a popular playwright but he got into trouble and had to fake his death to save his life. He kept writing plays under Shakespeares name, whom he paid to use his name. Only thing is that there's too much evidence to show Christopher Marlowe was murdered in 1592.

3. Sir Francis Bacon

Shakespeares plays include a lot about the law and the French kings court. Francis brother had been to the french court and written to Ffrancis. Francis faather had been Elizabeths lord keeper and his mother was relatted to Elizabeths chief minister. Francis was a poet but he had no experience in theatre so probably not him. Although Shakespears longest word: Honorificabilitudinitatibus

can be rearranged to get the latin phrase, Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi. This means: These plays, the children of F. Bacon, are preserved for the world.

So he might have written them...

4. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford

There are letter that said he wrote plays there isn't a list of his plays. One reason against this theory is that he died in 1604 but there were still palys written after that so...

5. William Stanley, Earl of Derby

There was a letter which said he Earl of Derby was busy penning comedies for the common players. There is no record of his plays ever being performed which is why they could have been under Shakespeares name. The Earl had been to France and had met the people who appeared in SHakespeares plays. Lot's of peoples plays are written but not performed, perhapes because it wasn't good enough.

6. The Earl of Rutland

The Earl knew Shakespeare and there are records that he paid Shakespeare money. The Earl had visited many of the cities or places where the plays were set. He died in 1613 when the last of Shakespeares play was written. But there is no evidence that the Earl ever wrote a play.

7. Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton

He was a good, rich Cambridge Univerisity student who gave money to Shakespeare. Shakespeare is supposed to have written some of his poems for Henry. But maybe Henry wrote them and Shakespeare put his name on them. Henry though had a good and busy life. There might not have been much time to write Venus and Adonis.

8. Anthony Bacon

Anthony was brother to Sir Francis Bacon. He visited the French kings court. And soon after he had visited, characters in Loves Labours Lost were ones that ANthony would have met. But he wasn't in England when the plays were being performed.

9. King James I

The king loved witchcraft and his own right to the throne. The play Mcacbeth is all about these things. He put a lot of money into shakespeares plays, maybe to pay shakespeare for producing the plays. Although shakespeares plays were written during 1590 and James wasn't yet in England yet and JAmes wasn';t very smart.

10. Queen Elizabeth I

The queen loved drama and upperclass people wouldn't write something as common as a stage pplay. So she backed Shakesopeares theatre company and gave shakespeare her plays. The funny thing is, some of the plays were written after her death.

Answer 3

The vast majority: William Shakespeare.

A small minority: someone else. Since there is no actual evidence that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote them, opinion tends to be divided on exactly who that someone might be. Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere, Norman Voles of Gravesend and Queen Elizabeth I have been suggested. De Vere is the frontrunner at this time.

Answer 4

Virtually everyone knows that Shakespeare wrote his plays. But there is a small but vociferous community who continue to insist that Shakespeare couldn't have written the plays and that someone else must have. They don't much agree on who this mysterious person was: candidates include Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Queen Elizabeth and Doctor Who.

Answer 5

They are called Anti-Stratfordians. They include people who propose a number of different persons as people who might possibly have written Shakespeare's works and for some mysterious reason had them credited to Shakespeare.

Answer 6

William Shakespeare. All reputable scholars know that William Shakespeare wrote those plays. The evidence is overwhelming.

People who think someone else wrote them really want (for some reason peculiar to them) to believe that Shakespeare did not write the plays, and therefore do not view the evidence objectively.

Answer 7

Delia Bacon. Thomas Looney. Those were the main ones, although a number of people well-known for things other than historical or literary research have followed their example.

Answer 8

There are several people in the frame.

Answer 9

he is dead.