Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain
A brisk, witty essay that questions the accepted attribution of the plays traditionally ascribed to William Shakespeare, combining satirical humor with pointed historical and textual observations to argue that the works were likely written by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. The narrator catalogs perceived chronological impossibilities, gaps in the Stratford man's education and life, and apparent insider knowledge in the plays, using irony and skeptical reasoning to challenge orthodox scholarship and provoke readers to reconsider the conventional authorial claim.
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- 1909
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