Who are the 3 candidates who were thought to have written Shakespeares plays?

Answer 1

Here are the three most common candidates for writing Shakespeare's plays apart from Shakespeare, who is the clear front-runner:

Francis Bacon-University Educated dude who publicly said he hated plays and the theatre and wrote only turgid academic treatises.

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who published a few insipid works in his own name. Nobody can explain why he would choose to have all of his most brilliant work published under someone else's name.

Christopher Marlowe, who, if he was Shakespeare, was writing plays twenty years after his death for some reason.