The Oxfordian Argument Essay

Over the past 20 or so years, there has been a lot of questions who the true author is of the Shakespeare plays. I side with the Oxfordians, who believe that Shakespeare is not the true author of the plays and other literary works that he receives credit for. The opposite side of the argument is the Stratfordians, who believe that Shakespeare was the one man who wrote over 30 plays and over 150 sonnets.
The Stratfordian side of the argument says that Shakespeare is the true author of all the works attributed to him. Dr. Wheeler from Carson-Newman University says that This quote is saying that in that time period, playwrights were everywhere. A lot of them didn’t come from money either and worked hard labor jobs, but no one has ever questioned

Shakespeare was born into a low class family and no one expected him to do much with his life. He went to a local grammar school that had a large focus on the classics, but he never attended a formal university. The Oxfordian’s argument is that the plays contain too much knowledge of foreign and distant places and too about court life and the affairs of court to be written by someone so low on the social order and by someone who was unlikely to know all of these things. Other arguments are that the plays are written in too many styles to have been written by someone without the advanced education that most of the other possible authors had, and that Stratford was not very likely to have produced one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time. Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere are the two men that the Oxfordian’s argue wrote the plays. This quote lists some of the possible authors for these plays. The most likely of these men to have written these plays was Edward de Vere. In the plays, there are a lot of biblical allusions and references that Shakespeare uses. A hand annotated bible was found that belongs to Edward de Vere. Most of the passages that are referenced or alluded to in the plays were highlighted in the bible. Although de Vere died before some of the plays came out, Oxfordians argue that he wrote all of the plays before he died and they were performed as