First there were suggestions that William Shakespeare was assisted by a ghostwriter, now comes a notion – in a new book, “The Man Who Invented Shakespeare”, by German academic Kurt Kreiler – that many Shakespeare works were actually written by the Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere.
Edward De Vere also lived in the same [...]

According to an analysis of a number of Shakespeare plays, researchers at the University of London have concluded another playwright, Thomas Kyd, co-wrote “The Reign of King Edward III” with the Bard.
Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, believes that a comparison of [...]

A 17th century painting, known as the Cobbe portrait, which was thought to be of William Shakespeare, may not be a representation of the bard after all, but rather a picture of English poet and essayist Sir Thomas Overbury.
An authentic portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581–1613) was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in [...]

A painting that the Cobbe family in England has owned for 300 years is “90%” likely to be a portrait of William Shakespeare according to art expert Stanley Wells, who also says we may need to alter our perception of the Bard’s looks as a result:
For many people he is the round-headed bald man seen [...]