[nickcarraway]

Whoever wrote Shakespeare's play was a remarkable writer and had a very consistent style. It would be almost impossible that Bacon is Shakespeare, because there is a lot of his writing to compare against. If you compare Shakespeare's writing to Bacons's, it's very clear the same person did not write both.

[Sans-Culotte]

You could also look at artists who are simply prodigious. Mozart was the son of a composer, but there is no explaining his grasp of music at such an early age. he may begun to compose music before he learned to use the potty.

[Blind Eye Jones]

"If you compare Shakespeare's writing to Bacons's, it's very clear the same person did not write both."

But they did say some of the same lines, e.g., "Love doth much mischief" and others. Now these expressions may have been the common currency of their time, like the maxim "a penny saved is a penny earned" is for our time, but it is shocking when you read Bacon saying the same lines as Shakespeare.