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William Shakespeare did not write any of his plays

Jerm Warfare

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This episode was recorded for my UK Column show.

Robert Frederick argues that William Shakespeare was essentially a hoax - that the famous plays weren't actually written by the man from Stratford-upon-Avon, but instead by Sir Francis Bacon, a highly educated Tudor insider.

According to Robert, Bacon used Shakespeare as a front whilst secretly writing all the plays himself, and this deception was part of a much larger conspiracy involving Freemasonry and empire-building. He believes the whole Shakespeare myth was deliberately created to build up English national pride and power, with institutions like the First Folio being designed to promote what he calls "Bardolatry" - the worship of Shakespeare as England's greatest writer.

He sees this as evidence of a technocratic conspiracy where the real author, Bacon, remained hidden whilst a carefully constructed persona took all the credit.

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