So in a way that's almost better evidence for Shakespeare than against. Do you think the authorship debate is about literary snobbery on the one side and people who see Shakespeare as a working ...

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

The research serves as a counterpoint to an older narrative that imagines William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway mostly living ...

They suggest that the actor allowed patron Thomas Walsingham to use the name for authorship. Another theory that has attracted much scholarship and controversy is the Marlovian Shakespeare theory.

They wondered: Was Shakespeare was the real author of his plays? In fact, it’s a question some are still asking today. One chief concern among skeptics is Shakespeare’s modest beginnings and ...