Monday, July 7, 2008

Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Activity #5

In my opinion, I believe Shakespeare DID write his own plays, poems and sonnets. This debate has been going on for years and I do not believe there is no actual evidence to prove the fact that these plays, poems and sonnets came from another person. Some of the simple things that would claim that he didn’t write them were that he didn’t include his signature on the plays. Not sure if that is really essential.

In other cases, I believe he wrote them but with the help of other people. After researching some of his plays, I don’t believe he could make such amazing plays on his own. It is a possibility that his ideas and plots were ideas from fellow classmates or friends. I also believe education was hard to achieve back in the past so he would probably get help from other people. But the fact he added so many words to the dictionary, I would call him a genius. I believe he was educated during the times he wrote these plays. Without good education, his plays wouldn’t be as great.

One question I had in mind with this debate is that why would one man be greedy to claim someone’s work for themselves? If Shakespeare actually did that, terrible things should of have happened to him by now. I would find it bad taking someone’s credit for such work that made millions remember that work. Shakespeare is an educated person and with his brilliant mind, I think he wrote these.

1 comment:

Gaia Tran said...

Good point. I like your response to the question a lot! Especially your ending. That was a very good way to end your response! Good going.