![]() Even Scientific American entered the fray with an article proposing that the person portrayed in the famous Martin Droeshout engraving might actually be-I weep to say it-Elizabeth I. ![]() The Smithsonian Institution in 2002 held a seminar titled “Who Wrote Shakespeare?” The best-read article in the British magazine History Today was one examining the authorship question. Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times have both devoted generous amounts of space to sympathetically considering the anti-Stratford arguments. PBS, the American television network, in 1996 produced an hour-long documentary unequivocally suggesting that Shakespeare probably wasn’t Shakespeare. ![]() The presumption is that William Shakespeare of Stratford was, at best, an amiable stooge, an actor who lent his name as cover for someone of greater talent, someone who could not, for one reason or another, be publicly identified as a playwright.ģ The controversy has been given respectful airing in the highest quarters. Then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow.įrom Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson 2 Shakespeare’s plays, it is held, so brim with expertise-on law, medicine, statesmanship, court life, military affairs, the bounding main, antiquity, life abroad-that they cannot possibly be the work of a single lightly educated provincial. ![]()
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