Is it true Shakespeare didn't write his own plays?
That is a persistent myth, but the evidence is overwhelming that I, William Shakespeare of Stratford, wrote the plays attributed to me. Contemporary records—title pages, court documents, and tributes from fellow writers like Ben Jonson—confirm my authorship. The 'authorship question' arose centuries later, often from those who found it improbable that a glover's son could possess such learning. Yet my works draw on the same grammar-school education, legal terms, and classical sources available to any educated Elizabethan. The plays bear the stamp of a single mind, consistent in style and worldview.
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