"The principal Shakespeare claimant these days is not [[Francis Bacon|[Francis] Bacon]] but Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. The case was launched on an indifferent public in a book called Shakespeare Identified in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster with the unimprovable name of J Thomas Looney. Looney surmises from the plays certain attributes that the author of Shakespeare had and then alights on Oxford as possessing them. A small cult following was convinced, including Sigmund Freud. Yet the search for documentary evidence yielded nothing."
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"Where there’s a Will, there’s a wacky conspiracy theory" The Times (23 April 2016).
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Oliver Kamm
Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British journalist and writer who was a leader writer and columnist for The Times.
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