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On the contrary, we have several contemporary sources.
The plays themselves are full of language that comes from North's published writings and unpublished manuscripts. Literally thousands of lines and phrases. and ideas. This is direct evidence North is the original author. The only other alternative is that Shakespeare plagiarised everything North ever wrote, including North's unpublished manuscripts.
And Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson as contemporaries comment on North and Shakespeare and their relationship. Groatsworth even gives a biography of North and his family background.
They are clear Shakespeare is adapting/using old plays. If the plays are not from North, who wrote the source plays that everyone agrees existed i.e. the original Hamlet, Romeo and Julet, Merchant of Venice etc?
Do you accept Shakespeare as author of the Apocrypha? If not, why not, his name is on them.
On the contrary, we have several contemporary sources.
The plays themselves are full of language that comes from North's published writings and unpublished manuscripts. Literally thousands of lines and phrases. and ideas. This is direct evidence North is the original author. The only other alternative is that Shakespeare plagiarised everything North ever wrote, including North's unpublished manuscripts.
And Groatsworth of Wit and Ben Jonson as contemporaries comment on North and Shakespeare and their relationship. Groatsworth even gives a biography of North and his family background.
They are clear Shakespeare is adapting/using old plays. If the plays are not from North, who wrote the source plays that everyone agrees existed i.e. the original Hamlet, Romeo and Julet, Merchant of Venice etc?
Do you accept Shakespeare as author of the Apocrypha? If not, why not, his name is on them.
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