"'Death doesn't stop these people,' says Leggatt. Oxford, it's been said, could have written the works then popped them into a bottom drawer for post-mortem publication. "And Marlow didn't die either,' Leggatt laughs.
"That would be Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist (Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus) who was killed in a pub brawl in 1593, but whose backers insist survived and fled to Italy. There, he continued to write under the Shakespeare pen name, a theory that explains why 14 of the Bard's plays are set in Italy and replete with intimate knowledge of the culture (if not the geography, mistakes on which are numerous)."
Lynda Hurst in The Star (Toronto) reports on the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition's "Declaration of Reasonable Doubt," casting doubts upon the Bard's authorship. (And includes a transcript of Monty Python's "Stake Your Claim" sketch.)
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