� 1769, coincidentally, The Life and Adventures of Common Sense, an anonymous allegory, parodies the tradition then taking root at Stratford.
� 1850,Herman Melville publishes "Hawthorne and His Mosses" in Literary World (7), a reflection on Hawthorne, Shakespeare, authorship and anonymity, and ultimately the Shakespeare authorship question.
� 1910, Bacon Is Shakespeare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, cites the following distinguished men who perceived "the truth respecting the real authorship of the Plays:"
� 1940, Charles Wisner Barrell publishes an article in Scientific American claiming that the Folger Library's Ashbourne "Shakespeare" painting is actually the lost Cornelius Ketel portrait of the Earl of Oxford mentioned by Karl Van Mander in 1604 and George Vertue c. 1721.
� 1989, Broadcast of PBS Frontline of The Shakespeare Mystery further increases awareness and interest in the authorship debate.
� 2002, The new Shakespeare Fellowship is founded and begins publishing Shakespeare Matters. Barbara Burris' study of the Ashbourne portrait, published in the second issue of Shakespeare Matters, is cited by the New York Times in a major November 10 story in the Arts and Leisure section.
Hasty conclusion
Marlowe as the founder of English drama and the perfecter of dramatic blank verse. Without Marlowe as guide and leader, Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan poets and dramatists would not have achieved the reputation they enjoy
What did the gov have to do with it?
Each man that was precent at the time of his murder were secret agents for the government at the time. Maybe they were trying to hide something that he found out. Or maybe it was there plot to kill him.
He was a heretic. He wrote about many things at the time that were very controversial. he wrote alot of papers about how the church was wrong and he would hand them out on the street.
They are similar but the sentence structure and also the words that are used do not match up to the style of writing that Shakespeare had.
Some people think that he wrote the plays but he died more than 10 years after they were all written. He also did something�s that might suggest that he is Shakespeare, like how he sighs his name and how he looks.
Phase 1
What is the Shakespeare authorship problem? � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �The authorship problem was not questioned until 1780, when a Rev. James Wilmot spent four years trying to prove that William Shakespeare actually wrote it. There are other people who are suspected of writing �his� works. A few are the Edward de Vere and Marlowe.
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2. What literary, cultural, and political figures doubt that Shakespeare was the sole author of the work?
3. Make a chronological history of the doubts that surround the authorship of the Shakespearean canon.
1827-The anonymous novel, De Vere, or the Man of Independence, by Robert Plumer Ward, proposes in fictional form that Edward de Vere was the real mind behind the mask of Shakespeare.
1850-Herman Melville publishes "Hawthorne and His Mosses" in Literary World (7), a reflection on Hawthorne, Shakespeare, authorship and anonymity, and ultimately the Shakespeare authorship question. Melville suggests that the names of all authors may be mythical.
1852-The August issue of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal contains an anonymous article "Who Wrote Shakespeare" The author suggests that Shakespeare "kept a poet."
1857-Publication of Delia Bacon's magnum opus, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded, in which she considers the possibility of several authors.
1866-Nathaniel Holmes publishes The Authorship of Shakespeare.
1895-It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries, a novel by Wilbur Ziegler, proposes that Marlowe, Raleigh, and the Earl of Rutland were authors of the Shakespearean canon.
1910 - Bacon Is Shakespeare by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (New York, John McBride Co.) cites the following distinguished men who perceived "the truth respecting the real authorship of the Plays
1920-J. Thomas Looney, British schoolmaster and scholar, evolved the theory of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford as author in his book, "Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford.
4. Now do the same for the doubts surrounding the Stratfordian attribution.
Consider the logic/illogic of each position and evaluate the effectiveness of each argument.
6. Make a list of the six contenders for the authorship question. Then add to each as much significant evidence that is presented. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �
Edward de Vere: 17th Earl of Oxford: This contemporary of Shakespeare has been strongly advanced since the 1930s as the true author of Shakespeare's plays. A well-educated and well-traveled nobleman of Queen Elizabeth I's court.
Francis Bacon: Bacon has been a traditional favorite of the anti-Stratford camp, and retains a high place on the list of potential candidates. Bacon proponents point toward Bacon's learning, his correspondences and memoirs.
Marlowe: Would be the ultimate ghost writer, as he was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in 1593. However, there are those that say Marlowe really didn't die; according to some, he was actually an occasional spy in the employ of the Crown.
Shakespeare: The traditional candidate. Some say a country boy with only a grammar school education could not have written the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare. Ben Jonson's dedicatory poem to the First Folio calls William Shakespeare the "Swan of Avon." But the Countess of Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister, also lived on the Avon, and a 1618 portrait of her shows swans in her lace collar.
Derby:Edmund Spenser's Colin Clouts come home againe addresses a contemporary poet using the name "Aetion," meaning "Man of the Eagle." Aetion is traditionally identified with Shakespeare. The Stanley coat of arms has an eagle on its crest.
Rutland:Between the 1st and 2nd quarto of Hamlet, the author learned a few things about Danish names, Danish geography, and the Danish court at Elsinore. During this period, Rutland was an English ambassador to Denmark, and when he had studied at Padua University in 1596, two of his fellow students were named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.