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Most people believe that Shakespeare's plays were written by Shakespeare, who was a documented real person, and whose playwriting abilities were praised by Ben Johnson among others. However, there are people who believe that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays and then used his name as a pseudonym. Key contenders are the noble art patron Edward de Vere Earl of Oxford and the educated lawyer, Francis Bacon.

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