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.