Shakespeare, Cervantes and the Mysteries of Authorship
As attractive as speculation about Shakespeare and Cervantesâ authorship may be, looking closer at their lives shows just how irrelevant class, education and conspiracy theories are in terms of explaining their genius.
First Folio of William Shakespeare's plays at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Photo: Steve Evans/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Culture13/Jan/2021
William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, two of the most important writers of literature, are surrounded by a halo of mystery related to authorship.
In the case of Shakespeare, the question of whether he is the true author of his plays has circulated for some time. In the case of Cervantes, mysteries about authorship tend to concern who wrote the sequel to the first part of