Re: BTW, I have an idea that many famous works of art were not painted by the alleged artist,...
That's a different problem altogether. Famous artists like Michelangelo, Il Caravaggio, Rubens, Louis David,... didn't always work solitarily. They had their own atelier and taught students their art. Hence some frescoes were painted by the master and his student-assistants. Of course, it also happened that the master signed a painting of one of his students --but that's basically a problem for posterity since the "usurper" didn't gain anything. Remember, Van Gogh died in misery... Yet another case is those painters who were copied posthumously but cannot be blamed for it.
Re: In fact, I believe there was no such person as William Shakespeare.
Huh?!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. There is no record of his birth, but his baptism was recorded by the church, thus his birthday is assumed to be the 23 of April. His father was a prominent and prosperous alderman in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the College of Heralds. All that is known of Shakespeare's youth is that he presumably attended the Stratford Grammar School, and did not proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. The next record we have of him is his marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582. The next year she bore a daughter for him, Susanna, followed by the twins Judith and Hamnet two years later.
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You must have mistaken Shakespeare for French playwright Molière --clue:
Corneille-Molière
L'affaire rebondit
Haro sur le linguiste Dominique Labbé, qui ose affirmer que Corneille écrivit les pièces de Molière. Ses confrères et la Sorbonne s'entendent pour dénoncer une mystification
Frédéric Lewino
Avec un art théâtral consommé, Dominique Labbé joue les faux naïfs : « Je n'aurais jamais imaginé soulever un tel tollé en affirmant que Corneille ait pu écrire seize des pièces de Molière. Si j'avais su... » Oh, le méchant comédien ! Son regard pétillant de malice et sa jubilation mal contenue prouvent, bien au contraire, combien ce statisticien du langage est ravi d'avoir jeté ce gros pavé dans la mare universitaire. Au cours des dernières semaines, on a pu le voir devant les caméras du 20 heures de France 2 ou encore dans certains magazines triompher dans le rôle du petit scientifique provincial défiant les sorbonnards. Il faut dire que ce maître de conférences à l'Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble et chercheur au Centre de recherche sur la politique, l'administration, la ville et le territoire (Cerat) n'en est pas à son coup d'essai. Voilà quelques années, il s'était déjà fait connaître pour une analyse pertinente du vocabulaire employé par de Gaulle et Mitterrand.
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