▶ Your Answer :
In the reading passage there are abundant support for the author’s claim that Shakespeare did not acutually write his plays. However the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author’s point.
First, the professor contends that the argument related to using extensive vocabulary is wrong. At that time, patrons were common. So it is considered that patron would help Shakepeare. Other writer who lived in same era with Shakespeare did not educated from parents, but his patron educated him by giving books and supporting financial. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that Shakespeare had a middle class upbinging with no evidence to prove that he could write in the extensive vocabulary found in his plays.
Second, the professor insists that the point about singnature is errouneous. Shakespeare wrote the plays when people little considered on signature. importancing of signature revealed after 7 years when Shakespeare died. Also, signature is not meaning. Because all signature was unique.
THis counters the reading passage’s assertion that the names used in his title pages for his plays are inconsistent with his surviving signature.
Finally, the professor mentions that the opinion concerning recording of public mourning is flawed. Shakespeare was not popular than now and after he retired, he moved London to other place. Also, public did not know whether he died. Becuase despite he died, actor still performed. This refutes the reading passage’s suggestion that any public mourning of Shakespeare’s death went unrecorded. |