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Mainstream Shakespeare scholars maintain that biographical interpretations of literature are unreliable for attributing authorship, [10] and that the convergence of documentary evidence for Shakespeare's authorship—title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians and official records—is the same as that for any other author ...
Portrait miniature of an unknown woman, possibly Emilia Lanier Bassano, c. 1590, by Nicholas Hilliard [1]. The Emilia Lanier theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that the English poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano; 1569–1645) is the actual author of at least part of the plays and poems attributed to William Shakespeare.
Anne Rice — author; Mark Rylance — Shakespearean actor and director, director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995–2005 [35] Don Rubin — professor emeritus of theatre at York University in Toronto; Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship vice president; Antonin Scalia — U.S. Supreme Court Justice [7] Joseph Sobran — journalist, author ...
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As with other candidates for authorship of Shakespeare's works, Oxford's advocates have attributed numerous non-Shakespearian works to him. Looney began the process in his 1921 edition of de Vere's poetry. He suggested that de Vere was also responsible for some of the literary works credited to Arthur Golding, Anthony Munday and John Lyly. [40]
Various scholars have suggested Shakespeare's possible authorship, since a number of passages appear to bear his stamp, among other sections that are remarkably uninspired. In 1996, Yale University Press became the first major publisher to produce an edition of the play under Shakespeare's name. A consensus is emerging that the play was written ...
A fact from List of Shakespeare authorship candidates appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe are among the people who have been suggested as the true author of the William Shakespeare plays?
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