Shakespearean authorship

From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

The Shakespearian authorship controversy centers around the theory that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays and poems that go under his name. The mainstream of scholarly thought on this point is unequivocal in saying that he was exactly as claimed: the talented son of a prominent official from a prosperous provincial town, educated at grammar school who learned the techniques of theatre and received the background he needed in the vibrant cultural scene of Elizabethan London.