:’) An older title (I think circa 1960), bought it used, I read a year or more ago, called “The Hidden Shakespeare”, thoroughly examines the idea that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, and traces all of this lunacy back to a nutty book from about 150 years ago (if memory serves). One book by one wackadoo has turned into a cottage industry serving generations of cranks. :’)
Shakespeare was the nom dewhatever of Guy Fawkes when Fawkes was working his propaganda mischief.
I thought everyone knew that?
Not the first time.
A woman published an article/book about 150 years ago that got some of this started. I noticed when I read of it that either her surname was Bacon or she was a descendant of his. So guess who she thought wrote Shakespeare? This stuff is nuts. However, it WAS an interesting period with a lot of intrigue. But I personally don’t think there’s any reasonable doubt who wrote Shakespeare. Much of what I’ve read is just plain, old-fashioned elitism. Surely someone who was educated in secondary schools back then and didn’t go to university couldn’t have written like THAT. He MUST have been well educated.