Argumentative Essay: Is Shakespeare True Shakespeare?

Is Shakespeare REALLY Shakespeare? Scholars think that he was not a real man and another person just used his name to put on the writings. According to some researchers, Shakespeare was not a writer, he was actually an illiterate actor by the name of William Shaxper who was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shaxper grew up in an illiterate house and there is no record that he ever traveled outside of England. Despite this information, some historians believe that Shakespeare was the real author but evidence proves that there could be another author.

Scholars say that a man without much schooling is unlikely to write such profound stories, ". . . Will Shakespeare of Stratford is not known ever to have attended so much as a single day of school"(Wright). This evidence suggests that there was a man named William Shakespeare, but William had not attended school and was never educated. If he was never educated, how can he know so much about royal families? Prince Charles himself was perplexed at how much information William knew, "as Prince Charles, the Prince of

. ."(Nickell). Delia Bacon was a believer the Francis Bacon, another Elizabethan writer, was Shakespeare and she tried to find evidence of that, "Believing she [Delia Bacon] had deciphered cryptic messages in Francis Bacon's letters that pointed to certain secrets-perhaps even manuscripts-hidden in a hollow beneath the gravestone, she fully intended to excavate but then struggled with her supposed evidence and finally lost her nerve. She died insane at age forty-eight"(Nickell). Delian clearly had her own ideas about who wrote Shakespeare's plays and she was willing to do anything in her power to uncover the truth. Unfortunately, she died before she could prove her theory. Delia writing