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Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
The first book by Charlotte Stopes on Shakespearean matters was The Bacon/Shakespeare Question (1888), which examined attitudes on particular details found both in Bacon's works and in those attributed to Shakespeare. Mrs Stopes concluded that there were fundamental differences, arguing that Bacon was not the author.
In 1916 a judge in Chicago ruled in a civil trial that Bacon was the true author of the Shakespeare canon. [15] However, this proved to be the heyday of the theory. A number of new candidates were proposed in the early 20th century, notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland , William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of ...
Shakespeare attribution studies is the scholarly attempt to determine the authorial boundaries of the William Shakespeare canon, the extent of his possible collaborative works, and the identity of his collaborators. The studies, which began in the late 17th century, are based on the axiom that every writer has a unique, measurable style that ...
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 traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare. As is the case with the dozens of other candidates suggested to be the author of Shakespeare's works ...
Encounter with authorship candidates in a dream. Left to right: William Shakespeare, Anne Hathaway, Christopher Marlowe and Sheik Zubayr. The Dreaming: Waking Hours (2020) Greene, Robert (1558–1592), playwright, polemicist, [17] first proposed as a member of a group theory by T.W. White in 1892.
Shakespeare apocrypha. The Third Folio of Shakespeare's plays, listing additional works attributed to the author. The Shakespeare apocrypha is a group of plays and poems that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable for various reasons.
Stylometry grew out of earlier techniques of analyzing texts for evidence of authenticity, author identity, and other questions. The modern practice of the discipline received publicity from the study of authorship problems in English Renaissance drama. Researchers and readers observed that some playwrights of the era had distinctive patterns of language preferences, and attempted to use those ...