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In reply to the discussion: Having a few cold ones with Will Shakespeare. Ask us anything. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)12. Ask him if he really wrote all those plays, or if he bought a few or had ghostwriters.
There is the theory that no one person could have written all the different plays supposedly by Shakespeare. The theory is that Shakespeare had at least one ghostwriter, likely an aristocrat who was not allowed, by society's standards, to write plays. It just wasn't done by aristocrats. The theory is very detailed about why one person didn't write them all. And if one person likely wrote most of them, that person was likely an aristocrat, which Will was not.
It's also been guessed that maybe Will bought one or more of the plays from an unknown.
Ask Will that, please! Enquiring minds want to know.
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Ask him if he really wrote all those plays, or if he bought a few or had ghostwriters.
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
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