Authorship

'For most biographers and students of Shakespeare, the wonder is not that a provincial lad lacking in higher education could have written the works we associate with Shakespeare, but that any mortal could have done so. ' David Bevington.

Meres, Francis: Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, 1598

Barnfield, Richard, A Remembrance of some English Poets, 1598

Weever, John: Epigrammes in the oldest cutt, and the newest fashion, 1599

Return from Parnassus, or the Scourge of Simony

Jonson, Ben: Every man out of his humour, Sogliardo

Leonard Digges:

Will Baker: Knowinge

that Mr Mab: was to

sende you this Booke

of sonets, wch with Spaniards

here is accounted of their

lope de Vega as in Englande

wee sholde of our Will

Shakespeare. I colde not

but insert thus much to

you, that if you like

him not, you muste neuer

neuer reade Spanishe Poet

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