近两年来多次有人问我:到底有无莎士比亚其人?西方是否有人怀疑莎士比亚戏剧并非由他所写?这不禁使我感到,直至现在20世纪末期,那种企图否定莎士比亚著作权的影响仍未尽除,而且甚至还在扰乱我们中国人士的视听。这就有必要为帮助清除这一莫须有的问题费些笔墨。最早的一种想法出现于18世纪70年代,认为莎士比亚戏剧“该”是英国16—17世纪的哲学家和王室大臣 F·培根所写而以莎士比亚名义发表的。当时一个名叫 H·劳伦斯的人是这种想法的代表人物。他仪以虚夸培根曾写过许多剧本,“别人曾称他为莎士比亚”为理由而提出上述那种说法。到了19世纪40年代,纽约有一 Many people in the last two years have asked me whether there are any Shakespearean people or not. Does anyone in the West doubt that the Shakespearean drama was written by him? This can not help but remind me that until now the twentieth century, the attempt to deny the impact of Shakespeare’s copyright has not yet Do everything, and even disrupt the audiovisuality of our Chinese people. This is necessary to help clear up this unimaginable problem. The earliest idea emerged in the 1770s and considered Shakespeare’s play “The ” as published by Shakespeare in the language written by 16th-century British philosopher and royal minister F. Bacon. At that time a man named H. Lawrence was the representative of this idea. He used the exaggerated Bacon to write many plays, and “others have called him Shakespeare” for the sake of the above statement. By the 1840s, New York had one