William Shakespeare is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets 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 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

of today's episode I'd recommend the Shakespeare Enigma.

It's a documentary shot on location with expert interviews

discussing the question of Shakespeare's authorship.

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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

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