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William Shakespeare's genius, in part, lies with the immense vocabulary he employs, going so far as to create new words that are in today's English language. His influence on culture extends to how society uses his phrases as cliches and his enormous affect on poetry.
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[One] oft-mentioned reason for doubt is the higher learning displayed in Shakespeare's works, including an enormous vocabulary of approximately 29,000 different words, almost six times as large as the King James Version of the Bible, which employs only 5,000 different words. Many critics have found it difficult to believe that a 16th-century commoner, with no known education, could be so well-versed in the English language, let alone in politics, the law, and foreign languages. There are no existing admission or attendance records for Shakespeare at any grammar school, university, or college, and the school or schools where he might have studied are still a matter of speculation. Authorship doubters believe that the available information about Shakespeare's life offers no proof that he was able to write the works attributed to him. They further suggest that other, better-recorded figures of the period are more likely candidates for the authorship, and claim that Shakespeare was simply a frontman for the true author who wished to remain anonymous.
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Some probably inspired by Shakespeare's study of Lives (trans.1597) by Greek historian and essayist Plutarch and Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). Some are reworkings of previous stories, many based on English or Roman history. The dates given here are when they are said to have been first performed, followed by approximate printing dates in brackets, listed in chronological order of performance.
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Oxfordians have consistently defended the quality of Oxford's poetry, arguing that it is not inconsistent with his later having written the Shakespeare canon. Joseph Sobran has recently gone further, claiming that the verbal parallels he has found constitute proof that the poetry of Oxford and Shakespeare were written by the same person. In Shakespeare, Oxford, and Verbal Parallels, David Kathman examines Sobran's claim and finds it seriously defective, reflecting ignorance of both attribution studies and Elizabethan poetry.
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