William Shakespeare authorship question
GPTKB entity
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
literary controversy
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| gptkbp:arguments_include |
alleged coded messages
anonymity and pseudonymity in Elizabethan era differences in education and background lack of documentary evidence literary style analysis |
| gptkbp:concerns |
authorship of William Shakespeare's works
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| gptkbp:controversy |
gptkb:Marlovian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship
gptkb:Oxfordian_theory_of_Shakespeare_authorship Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship Group theory of Shakespeare authorship |
| gptkbp:debatedBy |
popular culture
academic circles |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
William Shakespeare authorship question
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| gptkbp:influenced |
popular skepticism about literary history
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| gptkbp:mainstream_consensus |
no credible evidence against Shakespeare's authorship
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| gptkbp:mainstream_view |
William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him
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| gptkbp:notable_proponents |
gptkb:Charlie_Chaplin
gptkb:Derek_Jacobi gptkb:Helen_Keller gptkb:Henry_James gptkb:Malcolm_X gptkb:Mark_Twain gptkb:Sigmund_Freud gptkb:Mark_Rylance gptkb:Orson_Welles gptkb:John_Gielgud gptkb:Leslie_Howard |
| gptkbp:notableWork |
Contested Will (2010)
Shakespeare Identified (1920) Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography (2001) |
| gptkbp:opponents_called |
Stratfordians
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| gptkbp:originatedIn |
mid-19th century
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| gptkbp:otherCandidates |
gptkb:William_Stanley,_6th_Earl_of_Derby
gptkb:Francis_Bacon gptkb:Christopher_Marlowe gptkb:Edward_de_Vere,_17th_Earl_of_Oxford |
| gptkbp:proponents_called |
anti-Stratfordians
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
Shakespearean scholarship
Shakespearean authorship theories |
| gptkbp:subject |
books
conferences documentaries films plays |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:The_Beard_of_Avon
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
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