Dbq On Shakespeare

Shakespeare - Man, Myth, or Legend? Thousands of kids learn about Shakespeare and his stories everyday, but is Shakespeare just one man? Growing up, teachers taught kids hundreds of facts about Shakespeare, but hearing that only 5 or 6 facts about Shakespeare are factual is surprising. Curiosity peaked, the search for truth about Shakespeare began. Shakespeare was not an ideal Renaissance Man because he was not just one man. Shakespeare is the collection of multiple mens’ work put under one name to protect the men. These men tend to reuse classics more than original work. However, Shakespeare was known to once walk this Earth. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon. He produced a family, moved to London, worked on his acting and writing,

Many scholars, such as Carlton Hinmen, are proving that the writing of Shakespeare are the workings of many men. “By comparing preferences if spelling … and comparing these in turn with idiosyncrasies of punctuation, capitalization, line justification … he and others have identified nine hands at work on the First Folio,” (Document 2). This could explain why Shakespeare could write such dark dramas one day and humorous comedies the next day. This could explain how Shakespeare's vocabulary was so extensive. However, even if Shakespeare is multiple people, he is already treated like an idea more than a man. If you were to research Shakespeare as a subject, 2,000 more works of literature would come up compared to researching Shakespeare as an author. “... enter Shakespeare as an author and you get 13,858 options, and as a subject you get 16,092 more,” (Document 2). The word Shakespeare has come to sound as more of a collection of plays and poems than a man's name. The works of Shakespeare contain a lot of work from classics. Shakespeare borrowed a lot of work from classics, such as stealing the plot lines from Seneca’s Thyestes and Hippolytus. “Shakespeare (used) the Golden Ass as a source text for a Midsummer's Night's Dream and ‘Titania’ is also used as a name three times in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” (Document