Oxfordian theory of shakespeare authorship
Did shakespeare write his own plays...
Stratfordian theory
Why would any rational, open-minded analyst reject Shakespeare's authorship?
The actor and shareholder, Shakespeare, whose company was based in London, is clearly identified with William from Stratford.
His authorship is attested by a mass of cohering documentary evidence and contemporary witnesses. Conversely, there is no evidence of any contemporary suspicion that he was not a genuinely prolific and successful writer.
His father was a local big-shot, who aspired to, and was subsequently awarded, a prestigious family coat-of-arms.
He was entitled to have young William educated free-of-charge at the King's New School in Stratford-upon-Avon.Such grammar schools left 14 year-olds with an intensive training in literacy, English, Latin and the classics, at least equivalent to that of a modern university graduate - as demonstrated by surviving curricula and by other accomplished authors of the time, who, like Shakespeare, received no university education.
Genius is f