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Shakespeare Lessons in Critical Thinking

ByDr. John Ingram Walker

How many are true, noble, pure, and admirable critical thinkers? Not many, perhaps. Let’s look at the following example. Recently, my daughter-in-law, Andrea, asked who wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. I quickly responded, “Everyone knows that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Some people suggested Francis Bacon as the author, but that idea has been effectively…

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Preconceived Notions

ByDr. John Ingram Walker

There are many theories about who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.One theory suggests that Francis Bacon may have penned some of these works, whileanother posits that a woman could have been the true author. Recently, several fictionalaccounts have been created around these ideas. However, the straightforward historicalevidence indicates that Shakespeare himself wrote the…