The author they admired and loved must have been scholarly and intellectual, linguistically gifted, knowledgeable about the lifestyle of those who lived in royal courts, and he appeared to have travelled in Europe. ![]() The initial impetus for this debate came from the fact that nineteenth century critics, poets and readers were puzzled and displeased when they were presented with the few remaining scraps of evidence about the life of “Shakspere”, as his name was most commonly spelled. There has been controversy over the authorship of the works of Shakespeare since the nineteenth century. William Shakespeare is the Western world’s most famous playwright – but did he really write the plays and poems that are attributed to him?
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