25025 Chrisanta Drive
Mission Viejo, Ca. 92691
Mr. Krucli
25025 Chrisanta Drive
Mission Viejo, Ca. 92691
Dear Mr. Krucli,
We are writing to you to share our opinion as well as our findings of factual information. We personally believe that Shakespeare did in fact write Shakespeare. We have researched this controversial topic and have made up our mind on the matter of whom we think wrote the works of Shakespeare.
I did my research on the basis that Shakespeare did write his own work and was able to provide you, as well as others with some facts and some fallacies. I personally think that the Oxfordian society, who supports that de Vere wrote the works of Shakespeare, doesn't generally know what they are talking about. Some interesting example of fallacies that have been made by the Oxfordians include when they stated that Shakespeare spelled his name wrong and therefore he wasn't necessarily smart, but what they fail to mention is that many people at the time were unable to spell their name correctly. This fallacy is referred to as a hasty generalization. Another example of a fallacy made by the Oxfordian people is that they deny the fact that a piece of Shakespeare�s work was published after de Vere's death. This type of fallacy is called an appeal to ignorance. People say that Shakespeare couldn't have written his work because he had never been to Italy, yet I haven't been to Italy either and I am still able to imagine and picture what it would look like. Thank you for reading my letter, I hope that I have provided you with some information and evidence.
We do not believe that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the literary works attributed to William Shakespeare under the pen name of William Shakespeare. It is true that in many of the works of Shakespeare, there are allusions to certain marked quotes found in the de Vere family bible. This can be passed off, though, as a mere coincidence, seeing as most people at that time, if not illiterate, learned how to read and write from the bible. It can also be very possible that these passages were popular quotes and were marked in many family bibles all over Europe. Another problem that arises is the fact that Edward de Vere died in 1604, five years before the publishing of Shakespeare�s Sonnets. It is not possible for Edward de Vere to have written and then published these Sonnets in 1609 if he had died in 1604. The play MacBeth is also another nail in the coffin of the Oxfordian theory. The entire play of MacBeth seems to be written in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed assassination attempt to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the House of Parliament with hundreds of barrels of gunpowder hidden in the basement of the House of Parliament. The play had been discovered on November 5, 1605, a year after the death of de Vere. There is a logical fallacy of Ignorance in the Hamlet argument though. The supporters of the Stratfordian theory assume that simply because they found the play a year after the death of Edward de Vere, he could not have written it. It is very well possible that de Vere could have written the play and simply hid it for one reason or another.
It would not make any sense to say that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare because Marlowe got his works and inspiration from Shakespeare. Proof shows that Shakespeare must have written it because they have shown Marlowe wrong. Marlowe didn�t write nearly as much as Shakespeare did. He was said that he was stabbed in the eye and lived this is making a hasty generalization. How could you write works if you are dead and why would you �fake� your own death?
Sincerely,
Sam Mannos, Max Thorsell, Sara Marca, Bryan Peterson