Authorship Controversy

16 December 2002

Authorship Controversy

It’s still one of the most thought about topics of today’s world and its been 200 years so tell me something is William Shakespeare the real author of his works? There is much controversy that William Shakespeare was the real author vs. William Shakespeare was not truly the writer of such great works.
Most academics agree that William Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Evidence for this comes from the Parish records that back up his birth in 1564, and records of his life in London in the 1600s, his name as a part shareholder of the Globe, his marriage certificate, his application to change his family’s coat of arms, and his death record in 1616. In the 1623 book First Folio consisted of 36 plays by William Shakespeare recording and publishing them for the first time. In the First Folio John Hemminges and Henry Condell state: "His mind and hand went together and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness that we h...