he points out, nobody doubted that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Doubts started because a powerful new idea took hold in the early 19th century, which was that artworks are expressions of their creator's inner self, and should be interpreted as spiritual autobiography. This change was part of the tectonic shift that we call Romanticism, and it affected Shakespeare because the few surviving documents relating to his life in Stratford did not suggest he was a spiritual sort of person at all.from The Sunday Times: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
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