Did William Shakespeare really write Romeo and Juliet Hamlet and the other plays attributed to him Scholars have long questioned the authenticity of the claim that these works were written by William Shakespeare of Stratford on Avon England There are a nu

Did William Shakespeare really write Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and the other plays attributed to him? Scholars have long questioned the authenticity of the claim that these works were written by William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon, England. There are a number of reasons why. In the first place, William Shakespeare was a man of humble origins. He was not a wealthy aristocrat or nobleman. Rather, he was the son of a tradesman, and there is no record that he ever went to school. Yet many of his plays deal with the lives of nobility and show an understanding of politics, science, literature and foreign languages that only an aristocrat or an educated person would have had. In addition, very few concrete facts about Shakespeare’s life are known. There are very few written records containing information about him. This seems unusual for someone who became as well-known as Shakespeare did. Some scholars take this as evidence that records were destroyed to hide the true identity of the author of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Several contemporary writers have been suggested as the possible true author of Shakespeare’s works. One of the more popular theories is that they were written by Sir Francis Bacon, a prominent scholar, diplomat and writer. This claim is based in part on perceived similarities between some of Bacon’s writing and certain phrases found in the plays attributed to Shakespeare. Other well-known writers, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, have also been put forth as possible authors of the plays.