The Real Deal (12 August 2021) with Nicholas Kollerstrom: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

It turns out the man who bore the name at Stratford on Avon could neither read nor write and obviously did not author them. Nick surveys the evidence surrounding three prime candidates: Christopher Marlow; Edward de Vere; and Francis Bacon. The strongest appears to de Vere, but he may have been aided and abetted by William Stanley, who married on of de Vere's daughters. In those day, crossing the Crown could be a fatal mistake, where there would have been good reasons to conceal the author (or authors') identity. A fascinating venture into the greatest literary mystery of world history with an expert in sorting things out.