Anonymous

[Blanche Fury]

This film, apparently a thriller about the authorship of the plays attributed to Shakespeare, is to be released soon.

I wonder if anyone here has views on the question of whether Shakespeare of Stratford (as the anti-Stratfordians often refer to him) wrote 'his' plays?

For what it's worth, my view is that the burden of proof must be very much with the prosecution (ie those arguing that Shakespeare didn't write his plays), and that there is simply nothing like enough evidence to make a remotely convincing case. I freely admit, however, that there are plenty of puzzling anomalies that hint that maybe something a bit fishy was going on. For example, why were there no laudatory poems published about Shakespeare in 1616 when he died? It was common for the death of literary figures to bring forth eulogies, but Shakespeare had to wait seven years until the publication of the First Folio in 1623. Doesn't this seem strange?

[CaptainWaggett]

Amusingly, Shakespeare's Globe was run for many years by a chap who didn't believe Shakespeare wrote the plays

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