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Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Works?

Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Works?. Jake Bernstein. Why Shakespeare Couldn’t Have Written the Plays. Came from a poor, uneducated family Both parents presumed illiterate Did not have enough formal education

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Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Works?

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  1. Who Really Wrote Shakespeare’s Works? Jake Bernstein

  2. Why Shakespeare Couldn’t Have Written the Plays • Came from a poor, uneducated family • Both parents presumed illiterate • Did not have enough formal education • No documentation of Shakespeare attending grammar school • No letters or signatures of Shakespeare’s exist • Different spellings of last name • Shake-speare • Shak-spear • Had no experience with most of what he wrote about

  3. Who May Have Written Them? • Francis Bacon • Wrote many other works, in many styles • His life experiences match what is written about in the plays • Described as a concealed poet by friends • Bacon’s signature hidden in some of the works • Tobie Matthew, a friend, wrote that Bacon was known to the world as a different person

  4. Who May Have Written Them? • Edward de Vere • Possessed the knowledge of the material that is prominent in the works • The plays have many references to de Vere’s court experiences • Shortly after his death, the flow of works ceased

  5. Who May Have Written Them? • Christopher Marlowe • He created the blank verse Shakespeare uses in his plays • Many parallels in the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare • Computer programs cannot tell the difference between their works

  6. Why a Pseudonym? • At the time, play writing was looked down on as a profession • For members of the court, some of the satire would be considered treasonous and subject the writer to death

  7. Works Cited • http://www.shakespeareanauthorshiptrust.org.uk

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