How could a provincial with no recorded
education write such works?
Why was his dedication of Venus & Adonis
so allusive?
Why did the satirist, Joseph Hall, link that
poem with a hidden author and why did John Marston respond with a
reference to the motto of the Bacon family?
Why did the poem have a headline quote
associated with Christopher Marlowe, reported dead just as
Shakespeare emerged into the spotlight?
Why was its dedication parodied so dismissively
by Thomas Nashe?
Why did Gabriel Harvey refer to the dedication
and hint at private knowledge of a secret involving an aristocrat
and an actor?
Why did the author(s) of the Parnassus
plays mock the admiration for Shakespeare by a gullible enthusiast?
Why do his plays contain parallels with the life
of the 17th Earl of Oxford?
How did Shakespeare come by privileged
information on the murky end of Christopher Marlowe?
What explains the links with Bacon's
Northumberland Manuscript and Promus?
Who was the plagiaristic poet-playwright of
Jonson's On Poet-Ape?
Why does the Stratford Monument hint at secret
Shakespearean associations?