| WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE? Use the Internet information linked below to answer these questions specifically related to WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE? 1. Find other candidates not already discovered in the background section and list why they should be considered as contenders. William Stanley: Earl of Derby Ben Johnson Thomas Middleton Sir Walter Raleigh (with or without collaboration by Francis Bacon) Queen Elizabeth: she acted in the theater 2. What is the controversy that surrounds Shakespeare's bust and its inscription as it applies to Sir Francis Bacon? 3. What did Mark Twain have to say about the debate issue? He had to say that 4. Why should the Marlowe spy theory be reviewed? it should be reviwed because 5. How has technology, most notably the computer, made its presence known in this controversy? the technology had a lot of impact to the presence in those years, the controversy was that people started to writing in the computer because their was technology. 6. What type of logic/illogic is used to support these claims? The logic William Shakespeare, in terms of his life and his body of work, is the most written-about author in the history of Western civilization. His canon includes 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems. |
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