The Candidates

A field of over 60 candidates have been put forward for Shakespeare's authorship.
These six candidates are perhaps the most well known.
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Francis Bacon
Viscount St Alban,
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Edward de Vere
17th Earl of Oxford
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Christopher Marlowe
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Mary Sidney Herbert
Countess of Pembroke
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William Shakspere
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William Stanley
6th Earl of Derby
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Group Theory
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