Shakespeare Identified

[Eyes of the World]

3. Let me correct you

There have doubts about the actual author of The Works of Shakespeare from the beginning.

The story of the Man from Stratford doesn't seem to begin before 1623.

The development of the field of Literary Biography gave impetus to learning more about the writer - and found nothing in the life of Stratford to match with The Works.

While it has been heresy in England to challenge Stratford, the United States did not have the same problem; the authorship controversy has been growing in fertile American soil since at least the 1820's.

The were 60 candidates proposed before the Earl of Oxford was proposed. Now only Oxford and Stratford remain (except for that half-dozen people who still press Bacon and Marlowe)

Although the Academic Community stands by their candidate, independent and usually unfunded research has continued to expand the case for Edward de Vere, without coming up with any evidence to preclude him (the only "evidence" presented on behalf of Stratford is challengeable, most of it based on legend)

So yes the academic community continues with Stratford, but they are people who have staked their names and reputations on Shakspere of Stratford; they are as likely to change their opinion as the church was likely to accept Gallileo (which they didn't too until recently - centuries after everyone else did).