SHAKESPEARE: How an ILLITERATE Actor Stole the Greatest Plays and Fooled the World!

This biography of William Shakespeare dives into the greatest mystery in literary history: how could an allegedly illiterate actor from a small town steal the credit for the greatest plays ever written and successfully fool the world for 400 years? We all know the name, but the man himself is a ghost. How did a glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon, with no record of formal education or international travel, write with such profound knowledge of law, court politics, and foreign lands? We explore the explosive theory that the "Bard" was nothing more than a frontman—a businessman who lent his name to a hidden genius protecting their identity. Was it Sir Francis Bacon? Christopher Marlowe? Or the Earl of Oxford? Prepare to question everything you learned in school about the greatest writer in the English language. 00:00:00 — Birth in Stratford-upon-Avon 00:00:56 — Father's social rise 00:02:33 — Education at the King's New School 00:04:02 — Family's financial collapse 00:05:59 — The Catholic question 00:06:51 — End of childhood 00:08:13 — Marriage to Anne Hathaway 00:08:31 — Wedding and first children 00:09:24 — Trapped in Stratford 00:10:14 — The lost years 00:12:08 — Encounter with a travelling troupe 00:13:08 — Arrival in London 00:15:26 — Theatre in Elizabethan London 00:16:26 — First steps as a playwright 00:18:01 — Robert Greene's attack 00:19:51 — Plague and the turn to poetry 00:22:34 — Return to the stage 00:23:56 — Death of Hamnet 00:24:50 — Grief reflected in Hamlet 00:25:25 — Dispute with the landlord 00:26:22 — Stealing the theatre 00:27:41 — Building the Globe 00:29:06 — The tragic period 00:30:00 — The Essex rebellion 00:32:15 — Interrogation by the Privy Council 00:33:08 — Darker plays 00:34:51 — Death of Elizabeth I 00:35:12 — The King's Men under James I 00:36:08 — Late years and wealth 00:37:08 — The Tempest as farewell 00:38:06 — Fire at the Globe 00:39:04 — Return to Stratford 00:40:58 — Death of Shakespeare 00:41:56 — The will 00:42:40 — The second-best bed 00:44:55 — Burial and the curse on the tomb 00:46:09 — Fate of the manuscripts 00:47:03 — The First Folio of 1623 00:48:02 — Authorship conspiracy theories 00:50:45 — Shakespeare as a mirror of London 00:51:43 — The eternal life of the playwright