Shakespeare Authorship

|Name: Montanay Epps-Johnson                                                 |Date: 11/20/15                                                             |
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|Teacher Name: Mrs. Horne                                                     |School Name: MNVA                                                         |


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            Williams Shakespeare’s is known for writing plays like “Romeo and Juliet”, “Othello”, “Macbeth”, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and many others. Shakespeare’s authorship of his 38 plays has been under questioning for hundreds of years. However, his works and professionals prove some suspicions that he was not the real author of all those well-known sonnets and plays attributed to him. Many books and articles have been written arguing that someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays and poems published under his name. Anti-Stratfordian is a person who, in the disagreement over who wrote the Shakespeare plays, holds that it was probably written by someone other the William Shakespeare. Anti-Stratfordian tried to seduce their readers into believing that there is “mystery” about the authorship of Shakespeare works. Anti-Stratfordian speak with confidents that nothing connects Williams Shakespeare to those plays because of his background.

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            Very little is known about Shakespeare’s early life. He was born on April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon to a middle-class merchant family. Born to John Shakespeare the glove maker and tradesman and Mary Arden, the daughter of a farmer. By the age of eighteen he was married to Ann Hathaway on November, 11, 1582. In 1583 his first daughter Susanna...