... has recently been named the most probable candidate for the authorship, all the evidence surrounding the authorship debate is circumstantial and the mystery probably will never be solved (The Shakespeare Oxford Society Homepage). Profile of Shakespeare 2 Because the characteristics of Shakespeare are so specific, there has yet to be found the author that fits this persona. Shakespeare's works were ... pseudonym 10 (The Shakespeare Mystery). Shakespeare could have very well been de Vere's pseudonym because of his emblem of a lion shaking a spear. Another piece of evidence pointing to Shak...

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... and Anne was pregnant. The couple's daughter, Susanna, was born on May 26, 1583, and twins "Hamnet and Judith who were named for their godparents, neighbors Hamnet and Judith Sadler "followed on February 2, 1585. Sometime after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare apparently left Stratford, but no records have turned up to reveal his activity between their birth and ... ...

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... granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. All that is known of Shakespeare's youth is that he presumably attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record we have of him is his marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582. The next year she bore a daughter for him, Susanna, followed by the twins ... candidate proposed as the real author of Shakespeare's plays. Bacon's followers remain active today. But other anti-Stratfordians have had their own favorites. Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, is now more popular than Bacon. Other men to ...

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... G. Wilson Knight, The Wheel of Fire (1930; rept. New York: Meridian Books, 1957), 195-201, and Reuben A. Brower, Hero and Saint: Shakespeare and the Graeco-Roman Heroic Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 415. For a more recent statement of this position, see Barbara Everett's essay, "King Lear: Loving," in her Young Hamlet: Essays on Shakespeare's Tragedies ... (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), 59-82. 3 See, for example, Knight, who speaks of "the absurdity of the old King's anger" in the first scene, describes him as "cutting a cruelly ridiculous figure" ... ...

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... been familiarized with Latin authors such as Seneca, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, and Horace. Shakespeare's grasp of Latin evidently expanded beyond what he was taught in school, for both his Latin vocabulary as well as grammar is both used cleverly and eloquently in his writings. Aside from Latin, Shakespeare had the tendency to incorporate events from his own life into his writings ... do have a rhyme scheme. Shakespeare is also credited with being the first writer to ever use modern prose in his writing. Shakespeare's intellect was so expansive, he found the English vocabulary he had to wor...

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... -understanding. The darkness of the night setting seems particularly important in a play where the language of love relies so heavily on sight imagery. Sight, eyes, looking-all are part of a vocabulary of love that would seem to require the light of day rather than a setting in the darkest of all places at the darkest of all hours. But if Lysander's plan ... ...

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