Controversy In William Shakespeare's Works

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William Shakespeare is one of the most, if not the most, well-known and influential playwrights of all time. With giving him such a title, criticism and skepticism of his works and his authorship are inevitable. His oeuvre is praised to this day for its supremacy, however, excessive controversy has arisen over the dissensus of his authorship. Despite the Oxfordian theory proposed in 1920 that claims that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the true author of Shakespeare’s works, the evidence favors the original notion that Shakespeare is indeed the author of his accredited works (“Oxford

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