莎士比亞另有其人說

莎士比亞及另外四位可能是莎士比亞作品真正作者的人的畫像 — 愛德華·德·維爾、弗蘭西斯·培根、威廉·斯坦利（英語：William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby）和克里斯托弗·馬洛（從左上角順時針數起，莎士比亞居中）都被認為是莎士比亞作品的真正作者。

莎士比亞另有其人說是威廉·莎士比亞的作品是否出自他人之手的一種假說。其支持者認為，「莎士比亞」不過是一張面具，隱藏在其後面的可能是另一位作者，甚至是多位作者，他們因為各種原因不能用真實的名字展示自己的著作。^[1]這個假說引起了公眾廣泛的討論，^[2]但有一小部分研究莎士比亞的學者和文學史家則認為，該假說不過是對莎士比亞的貶損。^[3]

莎士比亞第一次受到質疑是在19世紀中葉。^[4]2009年4月，美國最高法院大法官約翰·保羅·史蒂文斯聲稱認為莎士比亞的真實身份是第十七代牛津伯爵愛德華·德·維爾。^[5]

參考資料

^ Prescott 2010，第273頁: 'Anti-Stratfordian' is the collective name for the belief that someone other than the man from Stratford wrote the plays commonly attributed to him."; McMichael & Glenn 1962，第56頁.
^ Shapiro 2010，第2–3 (3–4)頁.
^ Kathman 2003，第621頁: "...antiStratfordism has remained a fringe belief system"; Schoenbaum 1991，第450頁; Paster 1999，第38頁: "To ask me about the authorship question ... is like asking a palaeontologist to debate a creationist's account of the fossil record."; Nelson 2004，第149–51頁: "I do not know of a single professor of the 1,300-member Shakespeare Association of America who questions the identity of Shakespeare ... antagonism to the authorship debate from within the profession is so great that it would be as difficult for a professed Oxfordian to be hired in the first place, much less gain tenure..."; Carroll 2004，第278–9頁: "I have never met anyone in an academic position like mine, in the Establishment, who entertained the slightest doubt as to Shakespeare's authorship of the general body of plays attributed to him."; Pendleton 1994，第21頁: "Shakespeareans sometimes take the position that to even engage the Oxfordian hypothesis is to give it a countenance it does not warrant."; Sutherland & Watts 2000，第7頁: "There is, it should be noted, no academic Shakespearian of any standing who goes along with the Oxfordian theory."; Gibson 2005，第30頁: "...most of the great Shakespearean scholars are to be found in the Stratfordian camp..."
^ Bate 1998，第73頁; Hastings 1959，第486頁; Wadsworth 1958，第8–16頁; McCrea 2005，第13頁; Kathman 2003，第622頁.
^ 張中江. 莎士比亚戏剧非本人所作? 法官称作者另有其人. 中國新聞網. 2009-04-21 [2021-04-18]. （原始內容存檔於2021-04-18）.

[1] Prescott 2010，第273頁: 'Anti-Stratfordian' is the collective name for the belief that someone other than the man from Stratford wrote the plays commonly attributed to him."; McMichael & Glenn 1962，第56頁.

[2] Shapiro 2010，第2–3 (3–4)頁.

[3] Kathman 2003，第621頁: "...antiStratfordism has remained a fringe belief system"; Schoenbaum 1991，第450頁; Paster 1999，第38頁: "To ask me about the authorship question ... is like asking a palaeontologist to debate a creationist's account of the fossil record."; Nelson 2004，第149–51頁: "I do not know of a single professor of the 1,300-member Shakespeare Association of America who questions the identity of Shakespeare ... antagonism to the authorship debate from within the profession is so great that it would be as difficult for a professed Oxfordian to be hired in the first place, much less gain tenure..."; Carroll 2004，第278–9頁: "I have never met anyone in an academic position like mine, in the Establishment, who entertained the slightest doubt as to Shakespeare's authorship of the general body of plays attributed to him."; Pendleton 1994，第21頁: "Shakespeareans sometimes take the position that to even engage the Oxfordian hypothesis is to give it a countenance it does not warrant."; Sutherland & Watts 2000，第7頁: "There is, it should be noted, no academic Shakespearian of any standing who goes along with the Oxfordian theory."; Gibson 2005，第30頁: "...most of the great Shakespearean scholars are to be found in the Stratfordian camp..."

[Bate_1998_73-4] Bate 1998，第73頁; Hastings 1959，第486頁; Wadsworth 1958，第8–16頁; McCrea 2005，第13頁; Kathman 2003，第622頁.

[5] 張中江. 莎士比亚戏剧非本人所作? 法官称作者另有其人. 中國新聞網. 2009-04-21 [2021-04-18]. （原始內容存檔於2021-04-18）.

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