The wisdom displayed in Shakespeare,
was equal in profoundness to the great Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum.
W. Carew Hazlitt

The best Life of Shakespeare ever written was that by George Steevens, the great Shakespearean commentator.

It consists of the following sentence: “All that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is, that he was born at Stratford-on-Avon, married and had children there; went to London, where he commenced actor, and wrote poems and plays; returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.”

The above was commented by George Stronach in his Mr. Sidney Lee and the Baconians, p. 6, 1904.

The following list shows the fanciful might-have-beens, without which, according to Mr. F. G. Fleay, a life of Shakespeare cannot apparently be compiled according to Sidney Lee’s Life of William Shakespeare:

1. There is every probability that his ancestors.

2. Probably his birthplace.

3. Some doubt is justifiable as to the ordinarily accepted scene of his birth.

4. His summons to act at Court was possibly due.

5. One of them doubtless the alleged birthplace.

6. There is no inherent improbability in the tale.

7. William probably entered the school.

8. There seems good ground for regarding.

9. Probably in 1577 he was enlisted by his father.

10. Is possible that John’s ill-luck.

11. Shakespeare’s friends may have called the attention of the strolling players to the homeless lad.

12. The wedding probably took place.

13. The circumstances made it highly improbable.

14. Renders it improbable.

15. If, as is possible, it be by Shakespeare.

16. It seems possible

17. Probably his ignorance of affairs.

18. From such incidents doubtless sprang.

19. He was doubtless another.

20. His intellectual capacity and the amiability, were probably soon recognised.

21. It is hardly possible to doubt.

22. But there seems no doubt.

23. All the evidence points to the conclusion.

24. But in all probability he drew.

25. Justice Shallow is beyond doubt a reminiscence of Sir Thomas Lucy.

26. The Rose was doubtless the earliest scene.

27. It was doubtless performing.

28. He doubtless owed all [his realistic portrayal of Italian life and sentiment] to the verbal reports of travelled friends, or to books.

29. Shakespeare may be credited with.

30. The whole of Shakespeare’s dramatic work was probably begun.

31. It was, doubtless, to Shakespeare’s personal relations.

32. Shakespeare doubtless gained.

33. It is just possible.

34. The tirade was probably inspired.

35. The many references to travel in the Sonnets were doubtless reminiscences.

36. That Shakespeare visited any part of the Continent is even less probable.

37. That Shakespeare joined any of these expeditions is highly improbable.

38. Renders it almost impossible that he could have gathered his knowledge of Northern Italy from personal observation.

39. There is no ground for assuming.

40. There is every indication that.

41. There is a likelihood that.

42. There is little doubt that Shakespeare.

43. It was probably about 1571 that William.

44. It was probably in 1596 that Shakespeare.

45. But in all probability he drew.

46. In all probability it was.

47. It was doubtless under Shakespeare’s guidance.

48. Shakespeare was doubtless withdrawn.

49. Doubtless, William.

50. Shakespeare, doubtless, travelled.

There will be fare and profound difficulty in compiling any kind of life to a person that never existed.

The person called Shaksper existed. He was the actor; he was the man who married Hathaway; he was son to John Shaksper; he was the father to his children; he was the resident of Stratford. He was not, definitely, without doubt, the author of the Shakespearean literature that entails the plays and sonnets sealed with the name Shake-Speare, with or without the hyphen.

That 99,99% of researchers, historian, biographers, scholars, students and plain old readers, complex two names to one individual, is a travesty to Shaksper’s memory and work as an actor of his time, and a dishonourable and intentional attempt, to bury the truth from William Shake-Speare’s paintings of the English language.

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A Lawyer [Bacon] and his Clerk [Shaksper] riding on the road, the Clerk desired to know what was the chief point of the Law. His Master said if he would promise to pay for their suppers that night, he would tell him; which was agreed to. Why then, said the Master, good witnesses are the chief point in the Law. When they came to the Inn, the Master bespoke a couple of fowls for supper; and when they had supped, told the Clerk to pay for them according to agreement. O Sir, says he, where’s your witness? 1