Was William Shakespeare A Real Capitalist?

For the lovers of Shakespeare all around the world, there is a great mystery that lies behind the veil. For centuries, people everywhere embraced the certitude that William Shakespeare, respected actor, poet and dramatist, was, in fact, William Shakespeare. It had never occurred to anyone that there might be a little possibility that someone other than him penned his works. The argument on the authorship question is believed to have started in late 1850s when an American writer, Delia Salter Bacon boldly asserted in her book ‘The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded’ that the plays which are believed to be authored by William Shakespeare were actually written by Sir Francis Bacon. Her audacious exposition gave rise to an agitation in the world of

Anti-Stratfordians hold with the notion that there are no documentary records which unequivocally identify Shakespeare as a writer. Rather, there are evidences to prove that he was a real-estate investor. He might have gained prestige in the London theatrical world (for his acting) on account of his trading in theatrical properties. They also consider that the documents that testify his literary career were only made to conceal the identity of the actual author. The writers of the past such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, John Galsworthy, and Mark Twain are few among the eminent literaturists who have expressed their doubts regarding the authorship of William Shakespeare. The movie ‘Anonymous’, released in 2011 depicts Edward De Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford as a literary prodigy who had actually penned down the plays. Those plays were presented with the name of William Shakespeare as the writer because his talent was considered to be dishonorable the royal