ABSTRACT
We seem to have reached an impasse. The evidence suggests thatWilliam Shakespeare lacked the background and education necessary to have written the works attributed to him, but also that the cases which have been made on behalf of the other authorship ‘candidates’ are unconvincing and lacking in evidence. Is there a way forward? Is it possible that, for centuries, we have actually overlooked and ignored the real author of Shakespeare’s works, despite the wide range of persons who have been suggested, over the past 200 years, as the ‘real Shakespeare’? Remarkably, this appears to be the case.
