The Question of Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays NOTES 1

Did Shakespeare really write Shakespeare?

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Shakespeare did in Fact write his own plays

1. “The gist of the arguments is that Shakespeare was himself too low-born, too
uneducated, or too unlikely a source for the play.” – Dr. L. Kip Wheeler

2. “Instead, some educated noble or Renaissance scholar wrote the plays

himself (or herself), and then paid Shakespeare to claim they were his works,
or invented Shakespeare as an imaginary character.” – Dr. L Kip Wheeler

3. “Many point to educated Renaissance men like Sir Francis Bacon, or Edward
De Vere (the Earl of Oxford) as more likely authors.” – Dr. L Kip Wheeler

4. “The hardest part to swallow is that de Vere died in 1604. Shakespeare’s later
plays such as, The Winters Tale were only licensed for performance in 1610.”
– Dr. L Kip Wheeler

5. “This line of thinking ignores the fact that King James, Queen Elizabeth, and
Edward De Vere wrote quite a bit of poetry publicly, under their own names.”
– Dr. L Kip Wheeler

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When did the Question of Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays Begin?

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1. “Around 150 years after Shakespeare’s death, doubts began to be expressed

about the authorship of the works attributed to him.”
 “Shakespeare did not write his own plays theory”

Title: Who wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?

Author: Steven Dutch, Professor
Date Created: February 5, 1998
Last Updated February 5, 1998
URL: https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/hidncode.htm

1. “It must be admitted that there are literary works with hidden codes and
messages. An anonymous Latin work of 1616 uses the first letters of each of its
53 paragraphs to spell "Franciscus Godwinvvs Landavensis Episcopus hos
conscripsit" --- "Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandalf, wrote these lines".”
- Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin -
Green Bay