Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?

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Some people think that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays. I found this story. It says that various people had been proposed as the true author. Brenda James and William Rubinstein wrote a book The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare that says that the real author was Sir Henry Neville.
They wrote that Shakespeare did not go to university and did not know enough to have written the plays. Neville, who was distantly related to Shakespeare, was better educated and had been to the countries that the plays were set in. He was the British ambassador to France, so that's why he traveled. They also wrote that Neville wanted the plays to be under another name and wanted to help a poor relative, who Shakespeare was.
Neville was imprisioned in the Tower of London when Hamlet was written, so that could explain the change from comedies and histories to tragedies.
Others challenge their position that Shakespeare didn't have the education to write the plays. They said he got a good education at grammar school and continued to be involved with other artistic and intellectual people.
The writers' reply to this is:
“What they must do is explain all the inconsistencies and inadequacies of Shakespeare’s life as it’s known to us and use it to explain the plays,” he said.
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I wonder what you think. :)
 
I've always thought about that. I first heard about this a few years ago, but forgot about it. Thanks for bringing it up. :thumb:
 
Well, anybody can write a plays, don't have to go to University to learn
how.

Tyler Perry

In 1992 Perry wrote letters to himself in an effort to deal with his childhood pain. These would provide the basis for the musical I Know I've Been Changed about adult survivors of child abuse.

Tyler Perry saved $12,000 and moved to Atlanta in 1992, where he tried to stage the play.

Tyler Perry found himself homeless on several occasions, and doing dozens of different jobs to support his determination that the play would succeed.

He had come to the point of giving up on the show, when in 1998, the turning point came. I Know I've Been Changed opened at the House of Blues and sold out eight times over before moving to the Fox Theater where it sold out 9,000 seats for two shows.

Since then Tyler Perry has been on a roll.

His next production, Woman Thou Art Loosed based on the book by Bishop T.D. Jakes grossed over $5 million in five months.

Tyler Perry became America's most successful young playwright and the writer, producer and co-star of the box office hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

My point is.... he didn't go to University, he wrote plays since
he was 18.

So all the snotnose people need to shut up about Shakespeare.
 
Anyone could try writing plays, but each person would develop their own style. There was someone named William Henry Ireland who wrote a fake Shakespeare play. People knew that it wasn't real because it was simplistic compared to the real ones. So, we could look at the style of the plays considered to be Shakespearean and see if someone like Shakespeare could've likely written them. Maybe he was really smart and wrote them or had the help of a more traveled and educated person like Neville. I'd want to do more research on Shakespeare's education.
 
When I was in school, the suspicion was that Sir Francis Bacon was actually the author of Shakespearean works.

Every so often, someone comes up with a new theory, just to keep things rolling.
 
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