I am 'sort of' haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised on a patient world. The more I turn him round and round the more he so affects me. But that is all--I am not pretending to treat the question or carry it any further. It bristles with difficulties and I can only express my general sense by saying I find it almost as im- possible to conceive that Bacon wrote the plays as to conceive that the man from Stratford, as we know the man from Stratford, did.
HENRY JAMES: Letter to Violet Hunt, 26 August 1903
The name ' William Shakespeare' is most probably a pseudonym behind which there lies concealed a great unknown.
SIGMUND FREUD: Outline of Psychoanalysis ( 1940)
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Publication Information: Book Title: Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts Which Have Been Made to Prove That Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others. Contributors: R. C. Churchill - author. Publisher: Max Reinhardt. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1938. Page Number: 25.
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