Bacon is Shake-Speare Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

"Bacon is Shake-Speare" by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence is a book that investigates the idea that Francis Bacon, not William Shakespeare, wrote the famous plays we attribute to Shakespeare, bringing up questions about who really created those iconic works of literature. The author challenges the conventional understanding of Shakespeare as someone without much education, arguing that the depth of understanding in the plays points to a more educated and scholarly writer. The author builds the case by questioning whether someone with Shakespeare's known background could have produced such sophisticated plays, suggesting that the plays are a better match for Bacon’s extensive knowledge.