Who is the real Shakespeare?
The authorship controversy persists because, despite two or three dozen official and legal documents that mention Shakespeare, and possibly threescore contemporary allusions, we still need to know more about his life. His plays show familiarity with the law, with the court, and with classical learning. He must have been highly educated. UNGENTLE SHAKESPEARE – KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES Thomas Learning 2001 Publisher’s Blurb : The claim that virtually nothing is known has been used to support a Romantic view of Shakespeare as a free-standing genius in lofty isolation from the mundane doings of the Renaissance world. SHAKESPEARE’S UNORTHODOX BIOGRAPHY- DIANA PRICE Greenwood Press 2001 Fact after fact stopped me in my tracks. No biography could account for Shakespeare’s education. His own children grew up functionally illiterate. Shakespeare retired to an illiterate household at the height of his presumed literary poweres. He wrote nothing during the last several years of his life. He left be
Amy Freed, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama, addresses the William Shakespeare conspiracy theory in an eloquent, bawdy and fresh play titled The Beard of Avon. Currently running until Dec. 22 at the Seattle Rep, The Beard of Avon attempts to shave off the hairy debate over who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Theories abound. Does a poor farmer out of Stratford, a wicked Earl or Queen Elizabeth I write Shakespeare’s plays?
