The Shakespeare Authorship Question

Arguments about William Shakespeare’s identity have been raging for well over a century.

In an extended interview, Dr Beth Miller and writer Jo Furniss explore the controversial and sometimes amusing question, was Shakespeare really Shakespeare? And what if someone else wrote the classic plays and poems published under his name? What are some of the theories and alternative candidates? Why do people want someone else to have written his plays? And what is it about his life that makes us doubt how one person could write some of the greatest literature ever written?

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With thanks to Dr Beth Miller, author of For the Love of Shakespeare.