Is it true Shakespeare didn't actually write down his own plays?

Question:I'm doing an analysis of the character Ariel from "The Tempest", and before I start, there's one piece of information I'd like to know: Is the rumor that Shakespeare didn't record his own plays, but others did, true?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm doing an analysis of the character Ariel from "The Tempest", and before I start, there's one piece of information I'd like to know: Is the rumor that Shakespeare didn't record his own plays, but others did, true?

As startling as it may sound, Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. One clue is that his plays are full of puns on his name, Will. He was a successful playwright recognized in his own time. A rival referred to him as "...an upstart crow beautified in our feathers...in his conceit the only shake-scene in a country..." -- "shake-scene" being a pun on Shakespeare, making it clear who exactly so threatened the other playwright.

The rumor about Shakespeare not writing his own plays began because people couldn't believe that someone who didn't graduate from Oxford or Cambridge could write the way Shakespeare did. What they didn't take into account was that the man had genius which needed no diploma.These snobs tried to make it look like others wrote his work, but there is a huge flaw in their logic: nothing the supposed authors wrote is in the same league as Shakespeare.

i dont think so

nope

People have been arguing about this for centuries, but no one has come up with any proof (or, if you ask me, even any slightly convincing evidence). So: Shakespeare's plays were written by Shakespeare.

It is contested by a few people that he may have stolen from a variety of people, the most popular subject being the second most famous English playwright of his time- Chritopher Marlowe.

I heard that he grew up poor, and therfore would not have had knowledge of the politics of king and queens. Another person some think may have written the plays was Sir Francias Bacon.

There are no manuscripts extant of any of the plays in Shakepeare's own handwriting. The only things that have survived are a scant few documents bearing his signature.

The plays have been cobbled together from actors' sides (their parts in the plays), memoirs and interpretations.

It is fair to say that no evidence exists to prove that Shakespeare "wrote" his plays.

Pay no heed to the Marlowe/Bacon/de Vere/Elizabeth Tudor falderol, however. William Shakespeare was the author of those immortal lines.