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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Extra credit being a detective on shakespeare

The debate goes on about who wrote Shakespeare.  The argument is who really wrote Shakespeare, the two sides are the people that believe William Shakespeare wrote his plays and Edward de Vere the 17th of Oxford.  
Many people say that William Shakespeare was the one who wrote many plays and poems.  Some think Edward de Vere actually did all of that. 

let's start with Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: William was born April 23, 1564 in Stratford, at the age of 16 he started to write many sonnets and plays.  By the age of 18 Will met a women named Anne Hathaway and got her pregnant they then had 3 kids Susanna, Hamnet, and Judith.  Hamnet died at the age of 11.   For almost 7 tears William Shakespeare had been gone these years were called the lost years.  After those years he came back and established him self as a play write and an actor.  On his birthday Will was said to have died April 23, 1616


Oxford:  Edward was born April 12, 1550 he was the only son of John de Vere he to also like Shakespeare wrote many plays and lyrical poems.  At the age of 15 he married Anne Cecil.  Edward de Vere was a very successful man  even  the queen ( Elizabeth) was grateful of him she gave him annuity of 1000 euros.  Also after many long years people had believed that the real author of Shakespeare was Edward de Vere. Edward de Vere died 7 years earlier than William Shakespeare died June 24, 1604.



For me I can't really decide who actually wrote Shakespeare and who did all of this work.  But if I were were to choose i would say Edward de Vere wrote all of Shakespeare because he was born before him and he didn't have any missing years were he was just gone.   Then again no one knows what Shakespeare did for seven years so it is very hard to choose one of them.  


1 comment:

  1. wow aaron, I never really thought about Shakespeare being written by anyone but Shakespeare. when I hear either stories, I never know which to choose
    great job!

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