William Shakespeare, one of the world's greatest English writers of all time, is an enigma when it comes to who he really was. There is very little history about Shakespeare and what we do know is that the schools he went to were very low level and he had a disregard for study. There is nothing known about the life of Shakespeare that would justify the high level writings that are attributed to him.

Therefore, many people believe that the writings of Shakespeare were actually created by somebody else and then imputed to him. The most popular candidate for these writings is the highly educated and articulate Sir Francis Bacon. It is said that there are many clues that point to the authorship of Francis Bacon in many of the plays if one looks close enough and reads between the lines.