The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

William Shakespeare is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets and playwrights in the history of the English language.

However, over the last two centuries, many people have begun to wonder if William Shakespeare

of Stratford-on-Avon-E England was indeed the person who wrote the works which have been attributed to him.

If you look at the evidence or the lack thereof,

they aren't necessarily crazy for thinking it.

Learn more about if William Shakespeare did in fact write the works of Shakespeare on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by Curiosity Stream. If you're interested in the subject of today's episode, I'd recommend the Shakespeare

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If you haven't heard it before, the idea that Shakespeare didn't write the works attributed to him might sound sort of crazy.

After all, we have paintings of him. You can go visit his home in the town of Stratford.

So surely he had to have created the works that have his name attached, right?

That would be like saying Lewis Carroll, George Elliot, Mark Twain, or George Orwell

didn't exist.

Except that none of those people I just mentioned did in fact exist.

They're all pen names.

So the idea that someone might write something under another name isn't at all a crazy idea.

It's happened many times.

So where did this idea about Shakespeare originate?

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