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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: The Shakespeare Conspiracy - Dennis McCarthy, Michael Blanding, & Derek Hunter - DSPod #232
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The true identity of the person who wrote Shakespeare's plays has long been debated. At least 87 potential authors - from Daniel Defoe to Sir Francis Drake to Anne Hathaway to Sheikh Zubar - have been proposed as candidates, but all of these proposals suffer from the same problem - they don't quite fit the historical facts and so have to be stretched, ill fitting, to even be considered. Only one of the theories seems to make sense in context of history and biography, and it is that...