[Plutarch]

More information about the authorship controversy at theShakespeare Oxford Society site, as well as the discussion board at the Shakespeare Fellowship Forums.

[luvbach1]

If William Shakespeare wrote his plays, as I believe he did, doubtless the effort took up much of his time and energy, perhaps accounting for his lack of activity and accomplishment in other realms.

[Pompah]

Oh No ! Not This Sh*t Again.!!!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If it had to be anyone else, I'd choose the great musician John Dowland. He was well-travelled throughout Europe, including a long stint at Elsinore in the service of the Danish king, well-educated (a "doctor in both the universities"), moved in the same aristocratic circles as Shakespeare (they shared a patron), and many of his songs contain words and/or themes that curiously seem to fit right into certain of the Shakespeare plays. A Catholic, he could never get Queen Elizabeth to give him a royal appointment, and was often hard-up for money.

[Peelod]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486634/posts

[LexBaird]

The trouble with fingering Oxford as the real author is that the noble earl died long before Shakespeare's most powerful plays were published

Why is it that the Oxfords never try to claim Ben Jonson or Kit Marlowe plays for DeVerre? Their history and upbringing were every bit as pedestrian as Will's. Besides, unless he had supernatural help from John Dee, DeVerre would have been very hard put to produce "The Tempest" from beneath the Auld Sod.

[Señor Zorro]

Personally, I have always found arguments of this type unconvincing. Is it possible? Sure. Anything is. But the meat of the argument is "how could a stupid, uncultured actor write this?" Sorry, I like evidence and (as this post admits) practically nothing is known about the man, therefore leaving the evidence a bit dry.

[nopardons]

bttt

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I've always been of the mind that Bacon wrote his plays, but it doesn't really concern me, because Henry V's St. Crispin Day speech is still the most powerful passage ever written in the English language.