William Shakespeare was a respected actor, dramatist, and a poet. However, according to the three nonfiction articles “Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare?”, The Authorship Debate, and “Was Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward De Vere?” The articles believe that there is a chance that Shakespeare did not write all of his works. Some works of William Shakespeare that are considered some of his finest works in English is Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.
In all three articles, the authors believe that Shakespeare did not write his works whether Shakespeare went to be known as a completely different name. The evidence for this can be found in the article “Was Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward De Vere? Where the quote says “ Edward de Vere did not publish
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The topic of the argument of whether or not Shakespeare has actually written his works is all much related.
In The Authorship Debate and Was Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward De Vere? both authors’ beliefs are that William Shakespeare might be The Earl of Oxford. In The Authorship Debate, the article declares “The Earl of Oxford apparently stopped his literary pursuits at an early age-unless, as Ogburn postulates, the Earl continued writing under his pen name of William Shakespeare.” Likewise, in the article “The Authorship Debate and Was Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward De Vere?” it mentions, “There were undoubtedly a host of reasons Edward de Vere did not publish his works under his real name.”
In these two articles, the topic of the discussion is who is really writing these works and who William Shakespeare truly is. The words “writing under the pen name of William Shakespeare” and “under his real name” help to confirm that the beliefs of both authors are that the name of the one who is writing these works is Edward de Vere. The authors believe that the name of William Shakespeare is Edward De Vere because they feel that he must not publicly identify his true name because “he may well have been prevented from doing so by the powers that be at