Shakespeare authorship question Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of A Review of Shakespeare's Authorship.

Shakespeare authorship question Essay | Essay

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A Review of Shakespeare's Authorship

Summary: Scholar Diana Price, in her article "Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence," addresses the 400-year-old question of whether Shakespeare truly wrote the many plays and sonnets attributed to him, or whether they were the works of others. Price argues that how we ask this question is just as important as the evidence that provides us with the answer.
Summary of Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence

Scholar Diana Price in her article, "Shakespeare's Authorship and Questions of Evidence" takes an independent, serious and thought provoking role in investigating the answer to a question of over 400 years: Was Shakespeare of Stratford really responsible for writing all those stories and sonnets?

Was it Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Edward Dyer, the earl of Derby, and of all most suspected by the anti-stratfordians' Edward de Vere (the 17th earl of Oxford)"

Price believes that perhaps were approaching this problem with the wrong question. Asking whether or not Shakespeare was the author might be framed incorrectly as a result of a false dichotomy set-up by ardent Oxford scholars. Rather, our author believes the more precise question should be asked as, "Was it Shakespeare or was it Oxford"" Price states, "Arguing an alternative case for a candidate who may or...

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