It is part of every person’s education to be taught that William Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers of all time. Shakespeare was a man who began life from in modest family, with virtually no education early on, in the16th century town of Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and who later wrote plays and poetry that were to win praise throughout the world. It is an inherited belief that has been passed own from generation to generation. With the increase in learning of the present day, and a growth of research opportunities, more and more people have become dissatisfied with this inherited teaching.
Substantial inconsistencies and illogicality’s have been detected within its content. This is the cause for extensive examinations that have contradicted what people had before now believed in without question. As a result, a number of different ideas to be considered about Shakespeare and who he really was. The authorship debate is about the conflict it has caused. On the one hand, there are those who refuse to abandon the inherited teaching. Instead they devote themselves to explaining, if they can, and excusing, if they cannot, the inconsistencies of Shakespeares story.
On the other hand, there are those who have abandoned the inherited teachings. They see the ideas of the literary scholars to be unproved; and as more and more information comes to light, their ideas become almost nave. Questioning W. Shakespeares Existence Using the Stratford Monuments Clues Although students of literature are taught to believe that the great poet and playwright, William Shakespeare, was the same man that bought and sold property and dealt in farm produce within his native Stratford-upon-Avon, it is a belief that rests solely upon four key pieces of information.
They are Greene’s Groats-worth of Wit; Sweet Swan of Avon, the tributes inserted at the front of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s collected plays, and the Stratford Monument. Even they can be questioned. The Stratford Monument is actually a great factor in proving the Oxfordian viewpoints. In 1623, a monument was erected in Shakespeares honour inside the Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon. After almost four centuries, the monuments true purpose has been revealed. Two secrets encrypted into the text with mathematical precision, each spell the name of the nobleman who was associated with the authorship of the Shakespearean plays.
This man is Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. As a consequence of this, the doubts that previously existed concerning true authorship have almost all been settled. The secrets of the monument urge that the person it has revealed should be tested. The truthfulness of the monument’s message can therefore be confirmed, or denied, by comparing and examining the credentials of both men; the one named by the monument, and the other, conventionally affirmed by Stratford enthusiasts to be the real Shakespeare.