The Shakespeare Puzzle: A Non-esoteric Baconian Theory

Daily Telegraph (UK) puzzlist conducts an investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question. Interesting new facts are presented that demonstrate that it was Gray's Inn law students that acted in the first known performance of The Comedy of Errors not Shakspere's company at the Gray's Inn revels 1594-5 and that it was Sir Francis Bacon who controlled them. An argument is given why Shakspere of Stratford could not have written this play. Bacon's motive for concealment is related to his need to find financial support for his Great Instauration project, the building of new institutes devoted to experimentation. The Shakespeare Authorship question requires careful navigation and the present work guards against over-interpreting the facts. Fully referenced and tightly reasoned, one noted academic commented that ''Chapter 6 is very convincing''.