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Shakespeare a Fraud?

Date Submitted: 10/24/2001 07:53:24
Category: / Literature
Length: 3 pages (826 words)
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William Shakespeare was a total fraud who never wrote anything because of his lack of a good education, failure to travel the world, and lack of a noble background. If these facts are carefully examined, it becomes obvious that someone other than Shakespeare wrote "his" poems and plays. <Tab/>The erudite language of Shakespeare's works proves that a man of his simple education could not possibly right in such a manner. …

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…ascribed to him. Since reading Shakespeare Identified by J. Thomas Looney, I am almost convinced that the assumed name conceals the personality of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford... The man of Stratford seems to have nothing at all to justify his claim, whereas Oxford has almost everything" (Duyn). Because he did not have a formal education, never traveled beyond his homeland, and did not have a noble background, Shakspere cannot be the true Shakespeare.

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