Southhampton; Cardinal Wolsey, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury; Robert Burton, Sir John Barnard, Sir Edward dyer, Charles Blunt, Queen Elizabeth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Edward de Vere
Mary Sidney Herbert
Queen Elizabeth I
THEORY OF COLLABORATION or a GROUP OF WRITERS
The idea that a group of individuals worked together to create the Canon has been growing in popularity. Since it is common knowledge that during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century different artists collaborated in the writing of plays, it’s not surprising that a “group theory” has arisen regarding those attributed to Shakespere. Many individuals from the aristocracy, professional playwrights and even actors and producers such as Richard Burbage have been proposed as possible co-authors of the plays.
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