User:Muellver

One question that has long been discussed but never really reached the world's attention as it should is asked and discussd in this following paragraph:

Who wrote Shakespeare??

The Oxfordians & Stratfordians – these two groups are debating the issue of Shakespeare’s authorship – “the greatest literary mystery of all time” (Sobran 1) According to the Oxfordians William Shakespeare from Stratford, the man who we know as the genius Shakespeare is not supposed to be the author, but a man called Edward de Vere. In contrast, the Sratfordians are perfectly convinced that the Oxfordians are wrong and that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.

We believed in the one and only genius and now people come up and pretend it is all wrong! Many people would probably do anything to unload this out of the historical memory because these claims are not only a shock for us but also for the whole industry which has been built up around Shakespeare. Every country has its heroes and that forms their individual identity.

The Oxfordians. These people, or let us say this movement, are the opponents of the Stratfordians( they believe Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, the name refers to the birth place of S. Stratford upon Avon in the UK), because they believe, that not William Shakespeare was the author but a man called Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, born 1550and died 1604.