I'm often so conscious when starting to work on Shakespeare that students can come to it with apprehensions of inaccessibility that I spend more time than I probably should at the start of the process enthusing about his genius; the sheer wonder that this one individual seemed to understand so much, and capture it all with complexity and economy in equal measure. The question of authorship can come up early on, of course, and it's a difficult question to answer. Clearly there's some evidence to support it or – more likely – the idea of shared authorship, but what artist doesn't collaborate continually? Part of the glory of engaging with Shakespeare is surely the constancy of the authorship idea.
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