Was Francis Bacon really Shakespeare?

[Da Lone-Warrior]

http://www.sirbacon.org

[Amazing Rando]

Mmmm... Bacon... :duh:

[Da Lone-Warrior]

It's amazing the way my English-Literature friends have reacted to the suggestion that Shake-Speare was someone from royal-heritage like Bacon rather than the more common heritage of Shaksper, the actor/businessman, to whom the plays have been attributed.

dlw

[Aravis]

Well, I like the Bacon thing much better than the Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford theory...

But I still lean toward the Stratford man.

I like these kinds of theories, nonetheless...

[Da Lone-Warrior]

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/04/entertainment/theater/8_4_0413_24_23.txt

It appears that the defenders of Shaksper have agreed to interact with various alternative-author advocates.

dlw

[shunyadragon]

http://www.sirbacon.org (http://www.sirbacon.org/)
I found a good site at http://www.fbrt.org.uk

The evidence is almost conclusive that the author was a highly educated man who graduated from Cambridge University. Much of the knowledge found in the shakespeare plays was only available through a select few major universities of Europe and some of this knowledge was exclusive to graduates of Cambridge. A basic knowledge of at least four other languages including Greek and Latin were required to have knowledge of the works found only in a select few libraries of which the public could not use.

Sir Francis Bacon is the only candidate to fit this and several other requirements that were needed to be candidates for the author of these works.

The level of the academic works of Shakespeare were far too sophisticated to fit the man in the mysterious biography anonomously and conveniently found to take scent off the trail of those suspicious of who the true author was.