This essay is an English homework from a writing class I am currently taking. I wrote 249 words in this essay.
Controversy of William Shakespeare's Literatures
According to the reading passage, there are three arguments on an authorship of works known to be contributed to William Shakespeare. Those works include famous stories of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Firstly, his education did not match the degree of background knowledge required for composing those works, especially history and geography. Secondly, although those works were very celebrated at his time, there did not exist any discussion record related to him on those works. Lastly, all original manuscripts of those works with his handwriting have not been found until today. From the aforementioned reasons, nowadays, two candidates for those works are Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford.
In contrast to the reading paragraph, the speaker strongly states that Shakespeare did create almost all of those works by himself. Firstly, an explanation for the educational requirement is that the knowledge in those compositions may not be real. In other words, in order to generate plays and poems, education level is not an important factor. Furthermore, there exist many records connecting him and those works. To illustrate, the first editions of those plays cited his name as an author. In addition, Robert Greene in 1592 reviewed his works and stated that he was an originator. From these facts, the manuscripts with his photograph and date may not be significant. Finally, the Earl of Oxford died before as many as 12 plays were written. On the other hand, all of the works were created while Shakespeare was alive.
revised on 11-04-09.
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