Syngrisis

The claim of the decipherers that Bacon was the author of certain works which have been ascribed to Peele, Greene, Marlowe, and others, as startling as it appears, finds support in their lives, and especially in the character of their work.
It is in the works of these three authors especially that Stratfordians claim to find the Shaksperian style of expression, and many of them assert, as we have seen, that the author of Hamlet collaborated with them.

All were men of corrupt lives, who hung about the playhouses, picking up a living as occasional actors, playwrights, and literary hacks; but are now regarded as pioneers in the English Renaissance.

Peele
His father, James Peele, a clerk of Christ’s Hospital, appears from entries in the Court Book to have been very poor. George is supposed to have been born in 1552-53. By the help of the hospital he received his degree of B.A. at Oxford in 1577. Two years later his father was ordered “to discharge his howse of his sonne and all other his howsold.” Bullen says that “no doubt he had been carrying on high jinks at the Hospital with his roystering companions, and the Court was scandalized.”

He went to London, where he was living in 1581, and was married in 1583. At college he was regarded as a writer of some merit, and on several occasions assisted in dramatic exhibitions at Christ Church. He was a degenerate, and in a vile book of jests which he wrote, he “figures,” says Bullen, “as a shifty, cozening companion, ever on the alert to bilk hostesses and tapsters; and reversing Martial’s lasciva est pagina vita proba,” Bullen concludes, “his verse was honest, but his life wanton.”

Chambers more mildly remarks that he was not over scrupulous as to the means of relieving his necessities, and places him among dramatists, but not poets of his time. His career was, of course, short, for Meres thus records the end, which might have occurred some years earlier: “As Anacreon died by the pot, so George Peele by the pox”; and Bullen adds, “A sad death for one who had sung The Praise of Chastitie.

The Arraignment Of Paris
The two plays claimed for Bacon must have been very early productions. The Arraignment of Paris was a pastoral published several years after the death of Peele, and was played before the Queen by the Children of the Chapel. The dramatis persona comprise the Gods, Goddesses, Cupids, Cyclops, Shepherds, Knights, and others, among whom are the characters with which we are familiar in the Shepherd’s Calendar, Hobbinol, Thenot, Diggon, and Colin Clout.