Oct 11, 2008

William Shakespeare | Did someone else write Shakespeare's plays?

The "authorship debate" turns on the idea that some or perhaps even all of the plays that have been attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by someone else. Because our knowledge of Shakespeare's life is so sketchy (no biography of the writer was composed until well after his death), there is no way to conclusively resolve the authorship issue. The argument for an alternative author (or authors) rests on three planks. First, it is argued that the sheer scope and diversity of Shakespeare's achievement is so great that no single individual could have possibly written all of...