By: lcywinsk

lcywinsk — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:14:43 +0000

Here’s what NPR writer David Edelstein said in his review of Anonymous: “At least The Rum Diary isn’t a desecration, like Anonymous, an outgrowth of the Shakespeare-skeptic cottage industry. These are people who think William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon had nothing to do with the plays carrying his name because a) there’s hardly a scrap of writing in Shakespeare’s own hand and b) no one so meagerly schooled, untraveled and unacquainted with court life could have written so discerningly about kings, queens, thanes and Danes. Whereas Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, the makers of Anonymous claim, had every reason to conceal his authorship.”

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:55:50 +0000

I remember reading one of the “Horrible Histories” books when I was a kid and they mentioned the theory that Christopher Marlowe really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. They said that he may have used “William Shakespeare” as a pseudonym or that William Shakespeare published them for him, but in his own name.

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