[mjp]

Doubts about Shakespeare's authorship have been voiced for more than 150 years

Sir Henry Neville was the "Winston Churchill" of Shakespeare's day.He wrote in a notebook references to the deposition of Richard II and notes toward directions for the coronation scene in Henry VIII - a play produced eleven years after the date of these preliminary notes. Also, there was the Northumberland Manuscript, with Nevilles's name at its head, Neville's family motto and poem beneath it, and Shakespeare's signature being practised at the foot of that document.

[nickcarraway]

Neville was in France, then imprisoned in the Tower of London, during 4 or 5 years of Shakespeare's peak productivity. Besides which, is there any evidence Neville had a literary bent, or any special insight into the human conditions?

On what basis do you compare him to Winston Churchill?