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William Shakespeare was a hoax

William Shakespeare was a hoax

Is it possible that the literary genius behind Shakespeare's work was actually a leading figure of the scientific revolution? And is it possible that William Shakespeare was an uneducated peasant who never wrote anything at all? If so, who really wrote his plays?

The Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship is a strange but kinda compelling argument that the literary genius behind the iconic plays and poems was not William Shakespeare but, rather, Sir Francis Bacon, a man of profound influence during the Elizabethan era.

The Northumberland manuscript

One of the most compelling physical pieces of evidence is barely discussed.

In 1867, a bundle of old manuscripts was discovered at Northumberland House in London. It dates from Bacon's lifetime, and on its cover somebody had scribbled the name "Francis Bacon" repeatedly, alongside the name "William Shakespeare", and the title of a play (Richard III), plus phrases from another (Richard II). The two names, written side by side by an Elizabethan hand, on the same page, decades before the authorship question even existed.

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