If you click on "Shakespeare" in internet Google search box, you get 28 million possible hits connected to the world famous English poet and playwright.
With so much more than information available to us in this icon recognized worldwide, he probably surprise you to know that there are very few actually know human from Stratford-upon-Avon beyond of the exhibit and sonnets that it would have been left behind.
The fact is that beyond world recognized, Martin Droeshout engraved Shakespeare's image, there is nothing conclusively connects human from Stratford-upon-Avon to exhibit and sonnets attributed to him... in fact, the picture only complicates the issue of paternity more!
What copyright issue say you? Where oh where have you been hiding?
Let's recap.
For the last few hundred years, an increasing number of historians have begun to question the facts that identify the Stratford-upon-Avon as human being the true author of the works attributed to him and over the years, a raft of eminent Elizabethan candidates were proposed at one time or another as the true author possible one or more parts of Shakespeare, as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edward De Vere, Earl of Rutland, the Earl of Southampton, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh and of course, Sir Francis Bacon.
The true is that the question of authorship was raised in the Elizabethan era at the time where the pieces were written and performed!
For example, between 1597 and 1598, two poets, John Marston and Joseph Hall, an exchange of satire, refers to the real author of Shakespeare's plays. In his first book (published in 1597) satire, Joseph Hall blames a poet, he calls 'Labeo' (the name of a famous Roman lawyer), who had written erotic poetry anonymously. In the image of his book (published in 1598) Pygmalion John Marston means "Labeo" as the writer of Venus and Adonis by Shakespeare.
In his second book of the satire (published in 1598) Joseph Hall infers that "Labeo" has been used name another person to hide his paternity and therefore the shelter satire. In some Satires John Marston identifies "Labeo" with the motto Mediocra firma and in context with the poetry of Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis and rape Vair - this motto is part of family arms, bacon used by Francis Bacon and his brother Anthony Bacon.
"Labeo" analogy is Francis Bacon rather Anthony, then authentication is absolutely clear - Francis Bacon, according to these two men, wrote "Venus and Adonis" and "the rape of vair' under the pseudonym 'William Shakespeare'."
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