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as the best of you; being an absolute Johannes Factotum,
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in his conceit the only ''shake-scene'' in a country.}}
The 'tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' is a reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, ''[[The Third Part of King Henry VI]]'',<ref>''Great Books, Shakespeare: I'', Edited by Mortimer J. Adler, 1952.</ref> while 'shake-scene' is a pun or play on words on Shakespeare's name.
The 'tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide' is a reference to one of Shakespeare's plays, ''[[The Third Part of King Henry VI]]'',<ref>''Great Books, Shakespeare: I'', Edited by Mortimer J. Adler, 1952.</ref> while 'shake-scene' is a pun or play on words on Shakespeare's name.
His plays seem to show so much education and erudition that many theories have arisen that those works were written by someone else. Famous candidates include [[Christopher Marlowe]], the [[Oxfordian|Earl of Oxford]] and Sir [[Francis Bacon]]. Most scholars reject these theories, but there are enough questions that new theories of Shakespearean authorship continue to arise.
His plays seem to show so much education and erudition that many theories have arisen that those works were written by someone else. Famous candidates include [[Christopher Marlowe]], the [[Oxfordian|Earl of Oxford]] and Sir [[Francis Bacon]]. Most scholars reject these theories, but there are enough questions that new theories of Shakespearean authorship continue to arise.
His tomb in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England, reads as follows:<ref>[http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-23&view=View American minute for April 23]</ref>
His tomb in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England, reads as follows:<ref>[http://www.amerisearch.net/index.php?date=2004-04-23&view=View American minute for April 23]</ref>
{{cquote|Good Friend For Jesus Sake Forbeare, To Digg The Dust Enclosed Heare. Blese Be Ye Man Spares Thes Stones, And Curst Be He Moves My Bones.}}
{{cquote|Good Friend For Jesus Sake Forbeare, To Digg The Dust Enclosed Heare. Blese Be Ye Man Spares Thes Stones, And Curst Be He Moves My Bones.}}
==Posthumous reputation and authorship controversy==
In the years after his death, Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan writers were gradually eclipsed by a new generation led by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated as "Beaumont and Fletcher." Beginning with Samuel Johnson's edition of the plays in 1765, there was renewed interest in Shakespeare, a phenomenon called "bardology." Researchers discovered Shakespeare's will and some other documents, but the reading public remained dissatisfied with the amount biographical information available. By the 1840s, it became apparent that was no trove of Shakespeare correspondence waiting to be uncovered. In 1857, American writer Delia Bacon kicked off the Shakespeare authorship by claiming that Shakespeare was a fraud and the real author of his work was Sir Francis Bacon (no relation). Various late 19th century figures took up Bacon's cause, including Ignatius Donnelly, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, and Helen Keller. Computer style analysis by the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic in California in the 1990s established that Shakespeare's writing style is distinct and not similar to that of Bacon, the earl of Oxford, or any of the other writers who figure in the various authorship conspiracy theories.<ref>Elliott, Ward E. Y.; Valenza, Robert J., "[http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ571023 And Then There Were None: Winnowing the Shakespeare Claimants]", ''Computers and the Humanities'', v30 n3 p191-245 1996.</ref>
== List of Plays by Shakespeare<ref>[http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/bibliography/bibliography.htm Bibliography]</ref> ==
== List of Plays by Shakespeare<ref>[http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/bibliography/bibliography.htm Bibliography]</ref> ==