Shakespearean Authorship Debate

I am writing to you today because I would like to share my viewpoint on the Shakespearean authorship debate. Many of the arguments have come from historians because there is no physical evidence that William Shakespeare wrote all of his plays. Over his many years, he had supposedly written 37 plays and more than 150 sonnets, making him one of the most popular and famous poets ever. Although many people would like to give William Shakespeare the benefit of the doubt, there is too much evidence to show that other classical authors were the real writers behind the masterful literature.

One of the men that could be the true author is Edward De Vere, an English aristocrat in the late sixteenth century. Often times, writing literature was reserved for a lower class and certainly not noblemen. Because of his position, it makes perfect sense for Edward to write his literature in private and then have someone publish it for him or even have an alias for which he published by: William Shakespeare. Another reason it could be De Vere is because of the detail in which the plays depicted the settings. In source two, it states that “Edward De Vere is known to have traveled to Italy in the 1570s.” Because of this extensive travel to Venice and all over Italy, it made him extremely well qualified to write about such far off places in the

In source number two, it evaluates that “Edward De Vere’s father-in-law, William Cecil, Lord Burghley is said to be” the basis of the “character Polonius. Only a person intimately knowledgeable of Lord Burghley’s life could parody this man convincingly in Hamlet.” This shows us why this character had so much believable details: because he was a real man. Furthermore, similarities are continuing to be drawn such as sonnet 125, as well as Henry IV, Part One. Because of this, Shakespeare seems have gotten his writing from someone such as Edward De