Shakp Shaksper Shakespe Shakspere.
Some of those spellings include Shakespear, Shakspere and Shakespeare.
Records for the grammar school in Stratford
are lost, and there is no record Shakspere attended university.
Since hundreds of biographies have been written about Shakspere of Stratford, how could there be any doubts?
Only seven of the nineteen elected officials in
Stratford could sign their names when Shakspere's father held office.
To save Shakspere of Stratford as author, his plays
are now being considered the work of a kind of collaborative authorial factory with different writers contributing different parts of the plays.
The Will- In his three page last will and testament, Shakspere makes no mention of any books,
manuscripts, plays, correspondence- or to anything else of a literary nature, not even to a family bible.
It is not acceptable for academics to label those who question the traditional authorship as“lunatics,”“conspiracy theorists,” or worse
when the traditional theory for Shakspere is built upon historical fictions
and suppositions that are presented as facts.
Intimate Knowledge of Italy- All Shakespeare scholars agreed Shakspere of Stratford never left England, until detailed knowledge of Italy in the
plays has now necessitated speculation that Shakspere“may have” traveled to Italy or“may
have known” someone who had been to Italy.