Shakespear was a fraud

[AzariLoveIran]

[Ibrahim]

[Tinker]

That's right. Shakespeare's plays were really written by Sir Francis Bacon, the inventor of modern Rosicrucianism. One of the best rebuttals to that was this woman I know who runs a kids acting studio said, "Shakespeare wrote women too well for it to be Francis Bacon."

[Nonc Hilaire]

If he was, he was one of the best.

[Torchwood]

This has been going on for centuries, Azari, mostly from snobbish commentators who could not conceive that a simple journeyman playwright could write all this stuff.

The point is that all these important people (such as Bacon, at one stage Lord Chancellor, or the Earl of Oxford, another suggestion) would never have condescended to write plays, which were a low form of entertainment at the time (poetry was high class and OK, and then as now made no money)

In any case Bacon was a lawyer, and wrote like one. No way could he have written what Shakespeare did; that he invented scientific method was quite enough.

[Colonel Sun]