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There is not the slightest bit of evidence that Oxford or anyone else wrote any of Shakespeare's works. No one has produced any documentary or eyewitness evidence to prove their case; they merely searched through the fiction to find what they were looking for in the first place (and searched without knowing enough about the subject to know what they were actually finding).The Oxfordians run away when asked to produce evidence. This is because they cannot. So it's a matter of religious faith vs. the facts -- which are that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
There is no disagreement among informed and scholarly sources. There are just crackpots who try to prove there was another author, primarily to take a break from their efforts to prove the Earth is flat.
BTW, this isn't an old debate; it's a relatively new one. No one who was in a position to know Shakespeare, Oxford, Bacon, or any of the other candidates ever cast doubt as to the authorship. It wasn't until the witnesses were dead for 200 years and the realities of Elizabethan society were forgotten that anyone thought otherwise. And still they haven't produced a shread of evidence to support their claim.
Posted by Reality Chuck on March 24, 1997 at 08:18:36
In Reply to "The old debate... was he really?" posted by Darrel Kelley on March 22, 1997 at 19:35:18
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