Was William Shakespeare The Sole Author Of All His Plays? Essay

Controversy has always followed many people when things seem too hard to believe.   In this case, William Shakespeare had been the subject of a great controversy regarding whether he wrote such famous plays as “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”   Many people have found it impossible to believe that such a man could have written the plays.   They feel that either other people such as Sir Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford (just to name a few) wrote many or most of the thoughts of that Shakespeare used.   The efforts to prove that different people wrote them has resulted in many books of theories as to what really happen and to try to answer the question, Is William Shakespeare the great author we supposedly thought?
The first person to question Shakespeare’s authorship of his works was a man named ‘Captain’ Goulding.   Shakespeare’s plays are so extreme, meaning that the world has never seen such writing before that “Shakespeare has frightened three parts of the World from attempting to write; and he was no Scholar, no Historian, and in all probability could not write English.” (Goulding, 12)   In his book called “An Essay against Too Much Reading,” Goulding talked about one of the anti-Stratfordian arguments.   The anti-Stratfordian arguments were the arguments as to Shakespeare not being the rightful writer of the plays.   Goulding after he said that first introduced us to the question:
Although his Plays were historical…the History Part was given him in concise and short, by one of those Chuckles that could give him nothing else…. I will give you a short Account of Mr. Shakespeare’s Proceeding; and that I had from one of his Intimate Acquaintance.   His being imperfect in some Things, was owing to his not being a Scholar, which obliged him to have one of those chuckledpated Historians for his particular Associate…and he maintained him, or he might have starved upon his history.   And when he wanted anything in his Way…he sent to him… Then with his natural...