[lbo-talk] Shakespeare's 457th birthday

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Apr 12 14:02:10 PDT 2007


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> The Earl of Oxford died in 1604. Who wrote Hamlet,
> MacBeth, Lear, Othello, Anthony & Cleopatra, Winter's
> Tale, Measure for Measure, All's Well, 12th Night, and
> The Tempest, all of which are later?

There is no real debate over Shakespeare's authenticity. If anyone one wants to try a _really_ hard case for proving attribution, try to prove that Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels. He did, but the hard evidence for his doing so is much flimsier than the hard evidence for Shakespeare writing The Plays.

Carrol



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