I'm really not sure what the basis or driver for the authorship question is.
There doesn't seem to be question to answer.
It doesn't strike me as implausable that a single person called Shakespeare wrote great plays. It's not as if he were an illiterate peasant farmer who turned up in London and free-styled Hamlet at court the next day. He was middle class kid and had been to grammar school. It took him years to establish himself. And I think the theatre and the play writing process was different then than it was in Victorian times. Although perhaps not that different to how it is today. I don't think plays were written fully formed by some "writer", who was separated in time and space and concept from the production and performance or from the personal politics of the theatre company.
More fundamentally, one of the strengths of the British system of social class was that it was more flexible and allowed more mixing and cross-fertilisation than other systems (like France). People with money, people with influence and people with talent were faciliiated in getting together.
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I'm really not sure what the basis or driver for the authorship question is.
There doesn't seem to be question to answer.
It doesn't strike me as implausable that a single person called Shakespeare wrote great plays. It's not as if he were an illiterate peasant farmer who turned up in London and free-styled Hamlet at court the next day. He was middle class kid and had been to grammar school. It took him years to establish himself. And I think the theatre and the play writing process was different then than it was in Victorian times. Although perhaps not that different to how it is today. I don't think plays were written fully formed by some "writer", who was separated in time and space and concept from the production and performance or from the personal politics of the theatre company.
More fundamentally, one of the strengths of the British system of social class was that it was more flexible and allowed more mixing and cross-fertilisation than other systems (like France). People with money, people with influence and people with talent were faciliiated in getting together.