A Beginner's Guide to the Shakespeare Authorship Problem

Many books and articles have been written arguing that someone other than William Shakespeare, wrote the plays and poems published under his name. The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford was a recognized poet in his own day, and Oxfordians argued that he actually wrote the works of Shakespeare. Stratfordian scholars rebutted that the most obvious evidence that William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to him is that everyone at the time said he did: he was …

…big reader on many subjects. They pointed out that Richard Field, who grew up down the street from Shakespeare and in very similar circumstances, became one of the leading publishers and booksellers in London. <Tab/>After reading this article and viewing both sides of the debate, I would say that I agreed more with the Stratfordians. This is because they can come up with evidences that rebutted the arguments of Oxfordians.