Shakespeare Authorship Authors
The
Short List
There’s
Sir Francis ‘Shakespeare’ Bacon
Whose
works are now largely forsaken,
Yet did he once write
Some views erudite
“On
the Theatrical Art of Fakin’”?
Or
it’s obviously Edward de Vere
If
we would but persevere,
The author whom Freud
Believed fill the void
Of
that ghost by the family name Shakespeare.
Our
old friends Beaumont and Fletcher
Coloured
in Shakespeare’s sketches;
He made the pastry
They filled with tasty
Cut-and-come-again
fillings, I betcha.
There’s
that devilish Christopher Marlowe
Wrote
the lot from his villa in Como,
Once the plot was hatched
And he was dispatched
Smuggled
them home sans embargo.
Or
perhaps it was all Edmund Spenser,
A
man with top marks in Mensa,
Kept plays in a drawer
Of years a full score
Then
released one per year, each intenser.
And
it stands to reason Queen Elizabeth
Had
a hand before, midst, and after death;
While the name King James
Will have its own claims:
Writing
committees but lived on his breath.
If
the Bard was female Mary Sidney
Stands
a chance and those of her kidney
Though if Will was such
They’re not saying much
And
the corpus was very well-hidney.
Fairly
clearly it’s not Edward Lear
Wrong
century, or so it appears.
T.S. Eliot?
Don’t be an idiot!
They
breathed a different atmosphere.
But
a late-runner is Harold Bloom
If
all time is compressed in a zoom;
Shakespeare, it’s been said,
Was all in his head
And
the truth will not out until Doom.
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