But he's not there, and neither are
most other Western observers weighing in on the
subject, giving their debate a whiff of the abstract and the
academic.
That nagging question has remained the
subject of speculation among
academics for centuries, with authorship of his plays being alternately attributed to dozens of
others,
most notably, Christopher Marlowe, William Stanley, Sir Francis Bacon and Edward de Vere, aka the 17th Earl of Oxford.