[willyd]

Sir Francis Bacon is going to be mad when he hears this.

[APFel]

“These are some of the greatest works of literature in human history,” says Anderson, who adds that Americans, Australians, South Africans, Poles and Japanese all love Shakespeare’s work for the very human element in it.

In other words, there is a wide audience for this conspiracy book.

I'm sure it'll do well, but it could use an alien or two. Maybe a vampire.

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[SpringheelJack]

There is not one shred of evidence that de Vere, Bacon, or anybody else wrote Shakespeare's works.

Anderson says King Lear is actually based on de Vere’s own life experience, dividing up his wealth among his own three daughters.

Utter rot. "King Lear" is based on the account in Holinshed's Chronicles, with tips from an anonymous play published in 1594 called "King Leir".

that de Vere had an extramarital affair that went awry and led to a Montague-and-Capulet-like street war in London.

"Romeo and Juliet" is a dramatization of the 1562 poem by Arthur Brooke called "Romeus and Juliet".

[nopardons]

OMG...not this garbage again! Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's stuff. I've been reading and studying this stuff longer than the author of this tripe has been alive. That's it, end of conversation.

[Larry Lucido]

Was the Bard really the Bard?

Not after he was dis-bard.

[Ichneumon]

Was the Bard really the Bard?

Well, The Illiad was actually not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.

[fqued]

Not this again. Every few years someone re-dis-invents the wheel and claims that Shakespeare wasn't the author of his works. There are a couple of disputed works, but they are generally omitted from the canon, anyway.

[Billthedrill]

This again? What's this got to do with Darwin?

[Neanderthal]

The columnist Joseph Sobran wrote a similar book about 7 years ago. He is convinced that it's De Vere, too.

[righttackle44]

Actually, I think the writer of Shakespeare's works were little green men from Mars. My source is George Noory's Coast To Coast AM program.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Why did Freud not think that Shakespeare was written by him, anybody know?