Per.2
3-16-04
Phase 1
Phase 1 - Background: Something for Everyone
Use the Internet information linked below to answer the basic questions of who? what? where? when? why? and how? Be creative in exploring the information so that you answer these questions as fully and insightfully as you can.
1. What is the Shakespeare authorship problem?
They think that Shakespeare stole his ideas for plays from other people and the plays he claimed were his ideas were actually someone elses.
2. What literary, cultural, and political figures doubt that Shakespeare was the sole author of the work?
Edward de Vere thought Shakespeare�s ancestors wrote the plays and he took the name "William Shakespeare".The Rape of Lucrece doubted that Shakespeare was the one who wrote the plays. A lot of the people are in academics. Some of the doubters were other authors.
3. Make a chronological history of the doubts that surround the authorship of the Shakespearean canon.
Edward de Vere, First Folio, Reverend James Wilmot
4. Now do the same for the doubts surrounding the Stratfordian attribution.
The people that think he wrote the plays were Henry James and Mark Twain.He probably left the capital in his early to middle 40s, when his writing career presumably would have been at its zenith How, say skeptics, could he have accumulated the vast knowledge of royalty, court life, politics, and foreign lands-particularly of Italy, where several plays are set-woven through such a sophisticated body of work
5. Consider the logic/illogic of each position and evaluate the effectiveness of each argument
The logical reasons for William Shakespeare writing the plays and poems is that there are stories about him, but people have argued from ignorance by using the fact that he only received a grammar school education which limited his knowledge from ever being able to write the many plays and poems that he was said to have written.
6. Make a list of the six contenders for the authorship question. Then add to each as much significant evidence that is presented.
Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Edward de Vere. Shakespeare probably left the capital in his early to middle 40s, when his writing career presumably would have been at its zenith, and returned to the humdrum life of a provincial grain and property dealer, Edward de Vere Mounting evidence appears to strengthen de Vere's candidacy. None is more persuasive than an eight-year study, completed in 1999, of the heavily marked and annotated Geneva Bible, owned by de Vere.