Shakespeare Authorship Argument by https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh Made with charisma en-us 2017-03-28 13:19:48 UTC 2017-03-30 02:23:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Introduction joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581709 How do people know that Shakespeare wrote his own material? We know because the historical record tells us this. The evidence demonstrates that the man, William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, was William Shakespeare the player, Globe-sharer, and the author of the plays and poems that bear his name.
 People who believe Shakespeare was not the author of his own plays must rely solely upon speculation about what they think the "real" author should have been like, because they cannot produce one historical fact to prove their refusal to accept who that author actually was. 
]]> 2017-03-30 01:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581709 Body #1 joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581742 Nobody in the Elizabethan or Jacobean time period ever suggested that Shakespeare's plays and poems were written by someone else, or that Shakespeare the player was not Shakespeare the author, or that Shakespeare the Globe-sharer was not Shakespeare of Stratford. No contemporary of Shakespeare's ever suggested that the name used by the player, the Globe-sharer, or the author was a pseudonym; and none of the major alternative candidates -- not Francis Bacon, not the Earl of Oxford, not Christopher Marlowe -- had any connection with Shakespeare's acting company or with his friends and fellow actors.]]> 2017-03-30 01:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581742 Body #2 joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581766 Antistratfordians sometimes make much of the fact that the early publications of Shakespeare's plays did not have an author's name on them, implying that there was some effort to keep the author's name secret. But contemporary plays at that time were not considered literature, and most people didn't pay much attention to their authors, at least not until after 1600. Only about a third of all the plays printed in the 1590s named the author on the title page, and a major portion of these were late in the decade. The only playwrights to be named on any title pages from 1590-97 were Robert Greene, Thomas Lodge, Christopher Marlowe, John Lyly, and Robert Wilson. Of those, Greene and Marlowe had never been mentioned on a title page while they were alive; in fact, neither had been mentioned as a playwright at all while they were alive.]]> 2017-03-30 01:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581766 Body #3 joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581781 From 1594 on, the plays of William Shakespeare were performed exclusively by the acting company variously known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men (1594-96, 1597-1603), Lord Hunsdon's Men (1596-97), and the King's Men (1603-42).William Shakespeare was a prominent member of this acting company, as the following evidence demonstrates.On 15 March 1595, the Treasurer of the Queen's Chamber paid "William Kempe William Shakespeare & Richarde Burbage servants to the Lord Chamberleyne" for performances at court in Greenwich on 26 and 27 Dec of the previous year. On 13 March 1602, John Manningham of the Middle Temple recorded in his diary a racy anecdote about Richard Burbage and William Shakespeare: 

Upon a time when Burbidge played Richard III there was a citizen grew so far in liking with him, that before she went from the play she appointed him to come to her that night unto her by the name of Richard III. Shakespeare, overhearing their conclusion, went before, was entertained and at his game ere Burbage came. Then message being brought that Richard III was at the door, Shakespeare caused return to be made that William the Conqueror was before Richard III. Shakespeare's name William.



]]> 2017-03-30 01:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581781 Conclusion joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581833 Based upon the historical evidence presented, I hope that you yourself can conclude these 3 simple things: Nobody during Shakespeare's time period challenged or questioned his authorship. He was almost never mentioned on the titles of his publications and when he was it was posthumous. Finally, there are records of his work as an actor for 3 different acting companies.]]> 2017-03-30 01:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581833 Sources joshua_morrow1 https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581857 Last Will and Testament
http://www.bardweb.net/content/ac/simple_case.html
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/10/did-shakespeare-really-write-his-plays-a-few-theories-examined]]> 2017-03-30 01:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/joshua_morrow1/s2p6kv8yl8vh/wish/163581857