THE IGNORANCE OF SHAKESPEARE
New Book Investigates the Authorship of Works Attributed to
Shakespeare
Did William Shakespeare write the plays usually attributed to him
or was he an imposter? Explore this controversial topic in The
Ignorance of Shakespeare.
Many claims have been advanced supporting rival authors, based
to a large extent on Shakespeare’s presumed ignorance and
inability, but no one has ever succeeded in proving beyond doubt
that their candidate was the real writer. Nor, it must be said, has
anybody proved conclusively the case for Shakespeare.
His name, however, appears on the title pages of every edition of
the plays published over the last three hundred years or so. This
should be a strong point in his favour, but his opponents claim it
can be explained away as part of the imposture.
Those supporting alternative authors do best when they show that
their protégés had the education and access to sources necessary to write the plays. Can the same
be said for William Shakespeare?