William Shakespeare Skeptics

Since the 19th century, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the authorship of William Shakespeare of his many poem and plays has made many scholars and people as the same question: did Shakespeare write his works? Though Shakespeare is known as a poet, playwright, and considered widely as the greatest writer in the English language, Shakespeare’s background is very unclear. In addition, the lack of evidence indicating he was even a writer, cause skeptics to believe William Shakespeare of Stratford-Upon-Avon was, in fact, not the mastermind behind the Shakespeare Canon. Regardless, many literary historians and Shakespearean scholars do not find any reason to suspect that anyone except the William Shakespeare from Stratford-Upon-Avon wrote

Also, there are no records showing that Shakespeare furthered his education at university, which Anti-Stratfordians contend that therefore it would not have been possible for Shakespeare to have the knowledge of the affairs of the England court that is found in his plays. Additionally, the works credited to Shakespeare contain one of

Skeptics think it too hard to believe a man with a formal education of grammar school, at the most, could go on to having one of largest vocabularies of an individual. They question how a person of such limited experience could have composed the intellectual understanding and poetic brilliance shown in Shakespeare’s works. Nevertheless, many Shakespeare scholars maintain wrote all his own plays, pointing own that most of the playwrights of the time came from modest backgrounds and were not typically aristocrats. If Shakespeare attended the King’s New School, where he most likely would have learned a classical education of Greek mythology, Roman comedy, rhetoric, grammar, Latin, and possibly Greek, it would have laid down a foundation for writing. As a whole, the lack of education and humble origins of Shakespeare, while a plausible reason for doubt, is not enough to formally discredit Shakespeare of his works. Questions of Shakespeare’s authorship emerged because of the lack of evidence that William Shakespeare was the writer of the Shakespeare Canon. Shakespeare’s