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莎士比亚戏剧原作者争议不断About 150 years after his death, questions arose about the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays.在他去世 150 年之后，关于莎士比亚戏剧原作者的争议接踵而至。About 150 years after his death, questions arose about the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. Scholars an d literary critics began to float names like Christopher Marlowe, Edward de Vere and Francis Bacon -- men of more known backgrounds, literary accreditation, or inspiration -- as the true authors of the plays. Much of this stemmed from the sketchy（写生的） details of Shakespeare's life and the dearth of contemporary primary sources. Official records from the Holy Trinity Church and the Stratford government record the existence of a William Shakespeare, but none of these attest to him being an actor or playwright. Skeptics also questioned how anyone of such modest education could write with the intellectual perceptiveness（洞察力） and poetic power that is displayed in Shakespeare's works. Over the centuries, several groups have emerged that question the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. The most serious and intense skepticism began in the 19th century when adoration for Shakespeare was at its highest. The detractors（批评者） believed that the only hard evidence surrounding William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon described a man from modest beginnings who married young and became successful in real estate. Members of the Shakespeare Oxford Society (founded in 1957) put forth arguments that English aristocrat Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of the poems and plays of "William Shakespeare." The Oxfordians cite de Vere's extensive knowledge of aristocratic society, his education, and the struct...