William Shakespeare Research Paper

William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwrights of Elizabethan dramatist and possibly of all time. He is known as the world’s greatest playwrights because of his unique style of writing. His works were used as a form of entertainment to escape the reality for the rich and poor. His plays appealed to the masses and survived the hands of time, but little is known about man who wrote so beautifully because his life remains a mystery. In this paper I will discuss who William Shakespeare was, why there are allegations against him, and who could have written his plays. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. Shakespeare’s date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized on April 26, 1564. William grew up

Before discrediting him, let us remember Shakespeare could have written each and every play that is credit to him. The first evidence is that he may written his own plays comes from the First Folio of 1623. The First Folio was comprised of 36 of his plays, recording and publishing them for the first time. Its co-author was John Heminges, who was a shareholder of the Globe and he also belonged to the same acting company as did Shakespeare. Heminges and Henry Condell, who was also a part of the same acting company, remarked at one time about their late friend that "His mind and hand went together and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers (The Late Plays 231)." It is also said that they also prove Shakespeare wrote the plays contained within the Folio, since it contains a verse dedicated to the playwright's memory. People also a man could not have written the number of plays, poems, and sonnets that Shakespeare is credited. They say it would be impossible for a single individual to produce such a massive body of work no matter the circumstance. Keep in mind even though Shakespeare was a public figure, he was a man who was known to still keep to himself and also very secretive at

A lot of people speculate the range of possible authors from Christopher Marlowe to even Queen Elizabeth. After doing to research. I was able to narrow it down to five people. Edward De Vere, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Francis Bacon, and William Stanley are all possible author. They all have different arguments. Let’s begin with Edward De Vere. Firstly who is Edward de Vere? He was a renowned gentleman and the 17th Earl of Oxford. He earned two Master’s Degrees before he was seventeen years old, and also was very proficient in classic plays and in French. Edward De Vere fits the bill better to be the real writer of Shakespeare. He is known to have composed, directed and acted in plays around the same time as Shakespeare. De Vere studied law at Gray's Inn. Which accounts for the intensive knowledge of the law in William Shakespeare’s plays. The biggest problem for Edward De Vere authoring Shakespeare’s work is the fact that he died in 1604. There were 12 more the plays were written after 1604. Edward De Verne was a great candidate/potential ghost writer of Shakespeare, but his early death clearly throws him out of the conversation. The next guy is Christopher Marlowe. He is an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, he is known for his blank verse and his overreaching protagonists. He was born same year as Shakespeare and known as the second best author of