Most of us grew up being taught that “Shakespeare” was the sole author of the greatest body of literature to have ever been created by a single person. Were we collective dupes to perhaps the most skillful fraud ever to be perpetrated on a non-suspecting populace? Is everything we were taught about Shakespeare a cleverly orchestrated lie?
The actor and grain merchant William “Shakspere” perhaps served as a willing front for the playwright and poet whose achievements even today cannot be easily measured. Who was the real author behind the scenes, and why did he choose to conceal himself? Read on to learn more about the genius-in-hiding.
Among the many sonnets written by Shakespeare are passionate poems directed at a person he calls “a fair youth” and the “master-mistress” of his soul. Does the sometimes erotically-charged poetry imply that Shakespeare or the hidden genius he fronted for was homosexual?
It is argued that the man immortalized in his hometown of Stratford-on-Avon as the world’s greatest literary genius was in fact an illiterate born to equally illiterate parents. The true author behind the Works may have been some better-educated candidate, like Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe. Read their stories here and decide for yourself!
Did Francis Bacon somehow manage to conceal his own poignant autobiography within the Works, using a sophisticated code? Follow the trail discovered by modern-era “Shakespeare Cryptologists” who seek to free Bacon’s story from its mysterious hiding place in the plays and poetry of the 16th century.
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