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There's very little that is known about the man from Stratford who we all think of as the author of the works (I was astonished to find out how much of what we read about him is purely speculative). There's very little about him that suggest that he could have the classical education and intimate knowledge of life as a nobleman to have authored those works, and there's a school of thought among scholars that the man of Stratford was a 'front-man' for a nobleman who was the actual author. Writing plays, poetry and involvement with the theatre was considered very inappropriate for the aristocracy. Sir Francis Bacon (as mentioned by another poster) is mentioned as is Christopher Marlowe and Edward DeVere (7th Earl of Oxford), but the best evidence in my view points to Oxford. His life contained much of what is written about in the plays, and it is his relationship with the young Earl of Southhampton that is thought to be the inspiration behind The Sonnets (seemingly a journal of a two year long homosexual affair that would also have been frowned upon at that time in history). It is a long (one of the most outspoken 'Oxfordians' was Samuel Clemens) and surprisingly intense debate among scholars. Many actors and playwrights, including Orson Wells and Henry James are 'Oxfordians.' I'm anything but a scholar myself, but I do enjoy Shakespeare, and I found Sobran's book Alias Shakespeare fascinating. The Shakespeare-Oxford Society website, http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com has some good information about it.

because of what “Shakespeare “wrote......the real writer knew guvermint stuff and elite stuff and it was considered blasphemus to write of those things then..

Additionally a man named Shakespeare could not even spell the last name the same 4 times in a row