It doesn’t quite look like de Vere:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Edward_de_Vere.JPG
He’s the guy who most likely wrote the sonnets and plays.
It is unimaginable that a genius like Shakespeare could have lived. So the sonnets and plays must have been written by some other genius. Or maybe instead of one unexplained and improbable genius there were two or three unexplained and improbable geniuses masking as our undoubtedly fake solitary genius.