Period 7 - Authorship Dilemma

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

My thoughts on Authorship Dilemma...

The more i'm looking into this the more i understand the two sides of the story. I can see why the some of the people think that another person wrote it other than Shakespear. But what i think on the whole thing is that Shakespeare does have a great mind and I do think that he did write all those plays. I'm saying that only based on what i know. Yeah, it would be kinda sad if we gave credit to some guy who didn't even do anything special. But who knows i wasn't alive then.

My Opinion On Shakespeare

My opinion on the whole shakespeare thing is that all those debaters should shut up and leave it alone. Why would you want to bring up something such a long time ago back into the present. Everybody else thinks that she wrote those plays so why would they want to think otherwise. If i meet one of those people i would lay the back of my right hand straight across their face like no other known to the world.

The Opponents: Who Some People Say Really Wrote The Plays

Many people are sceptical that some man from Stratford wrote all of the wounderful plays that Shakespear did. Edward de Vere, the 17th Darl of Oxford was thought to write plays under the name of William Shakespear. There were noted similarites between the character Polonius of Hamlet and de Vere's guardian, William Cecil. Francis Bacon, a philosopher and writer, is high in the list of potential Shakespears. He was a good writer, but some people find it hard to believe that he wrote the plays, though, because his writhing style was different from Shakespear's and he also would have no time to write the plays. Christopher Marlowe, a playwrite is belived to be Shakespear, also. If he really was, though, he would be the greatest ghost writer ever. He was apparently killed in a tavern brawl in 1593. Some say that he faked his death because he was some kind of spy. Apparently he continued his life writing plays under the fake name of William Shakespear.

The two arguments:]

The two arguments are either that William Shakespeare is the author of all of the plays or that Edward De Vere is the author. These debates have been going on because there are not much knowen about Shakespeare but his plays. People are questioning wether not Shakespeare is actually the author. In a debate Counsel Peter Jaszi said that Shakespeare had the education or the life experience that allowed him to have the knowledge to compose the plays. But Counsel James Boyle argued that There is no eveidence that Edward De Vere is the actaul play writer but also that there is no eveidence that Shakespear is either. At the end the two came to an agreement that the only reason people are debating this is because we only want to know about the worlds greatest authors.