Alternative Authorship Proposals
In the past 150 years some readers of Shakespeare's works have doubted that they were written by a man with "small Latin and less Greek", believing instead that the real author must have been a highly educated person or persons. Their ideas are discussed as the Shakespeare authorship question. The scholarly consensus has always been to accept the substantial direct evidence for Shakespeare's authorship dating from 1623 and earlier.
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