My very first Rabbit Hole

Who was Shakespeare?

I think it must have been about twenty years ago that I first got interested in the issue of the Shakespearean authorship question. I didn’t know it at the time but it really was the very rabbit-hole I went down. I had always enjoyed the works of Shakespeare and like all normies took it at face value that the “man from Stratford” penned this peerless canon of works which many say are the pinnacle of the written word, in poetry and prose.

I then read a book by a guy called Joe Sobran called “Alias Shakespeare” and that advocated for Lord Edward de Vere as the likely author of this canon of works. It was a leap and a bound from that to a veritable treasure drove of further works on the authorship question! There were just too many inconsistencies in the “official narrative” and these are wonderfully exposed in a host of works such as “Who wrote Shakespeare”! I became certain that Edward De Vere was the true author.

However, when I tried to even discuss this with people they looked at me with incredulity! Everyone knows that story of the humble Stratford roots of the greatest writer that has ever lived. If you ever visit Stratford, as I have, this is relentlessly reinforced and of course there is a massive industry grown up around it which would collapse if the real story ever got out. The Shakespeare myth has been cultivated for centuries, taught in schools and propagated all over the world. People aren’t prepared to accept that it just IS a myth and that the alleged Stratford author was most likely illiterate and didn’t own any books. Awkward.

I found out that I was not alone in being suspicious of Shakespeare’s identity. Mark Twain did not buy into the myth; Charlie Chaplin was another dissident and he is joined by Sigmund Freud and even the famous Shakespearean actor Derek Jacobi in refuting the Stratford man psyop!

In recent times, my certainty that the true author of these works was Lord Edward de Vere has been challenged and I am increasingly confident that Sir Francis Bacon was the guy leading the ‘Shakespeare project”. This is what Mark Twain also believed. Bacon may have been the driving force behind a “scriptorium” of writers producing the works we know and love! De Vere may have had a role in this.

I think the suggestion that everything you think you know about Shakespeare is wrong is too much for some people. It’s like being told Covid 19 never existed!