Shakespeare. Is he myth or reality?

The life of the great playwright William Shakespeare

has remained poorly studied. So the question was

raised if he was real at all!

According to the official sources, William

Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April in

1564. But is it probably just biographers’ fiction?

Although stories about the Shakespeare’s

childhood and his youth are full of colorful

moments, science does not account them to be

faithful. And we know nothing about the school

years of William.

It is known only that on the 27th of

November in 1582 William was married.

His wife was eight years older. Soon they

had a daughter and the twins. There is

nothing about the next 8 years of his life, so

this period was called the "lost years“.

Finally there is no historical

evidence that William

Shakespeare received indeed

primary education! There is

no single piece of paper,

written with his hand, any

books were not found in his

library, which the playwright

certainly had to have. And the

most important fact about

Shakespeare as a poet is that

there is no mention of

contemporaries of him! As if

no one in England has ever

seen the writer !

And one more thing, when Shakespeare

died in Stratford, no one in England said a

word! The only response to the death of the

genius was a note in Stratford parish register.

Although in those days it was usual to write

the elegies about the death of poets and to

publish them in commemorative books.

Shakespeare’s phenomenon has recently

appeared. There is a rumor in British press

that the poet was Italian. The documents was

allegedly found affirming that Shakespeare

was born in Sicily, and his name was

Michelangelo Krolalantsa. Then, fleeing from

the Inquisition, he moved to England and

changed his name.

But in 1920 the

Englishman Thomas

Looney drew a sensational

inference from the analysis

of Shakespeare's works

that the author could well

be Edward de Vere, the

seventeenth Earl of

Oxford. The main

argument was the amazing

similarity of biographical

facts and ideas in private

correspondence with the

plots of Shakespeare's

plays.

Edward de Vere, unlike William

Shakespeare, the son of illiterate

parents, was born in a literary

family. His father was a

playwright John Bale patronized

a theater. His uncle was Henry

Howard, the fifth Earl of Surrey,

who

invented poetic form of English

sonnet.

In 1975, the Encyclopedia Britannica

actually stated officially supporting the

hypothesis that Edward de Vere was the

most likely candidate for the authorship

of Shakespeare's plays."

Although it is unknown who was

Shakespeare indeed and who wrote the

plays more than four centuries ago, the

tragedies, comedies and historical notes

are still alive anyway, exciting and

shocking the imagination of readers and

viewers. The great mystery of the Great

Bard has all chances to remain unsolved.

Thanks for your attention!