As part of a routine research project, Brenda James applied a 16th century code-breaking technique to a small passage of Shakespeare's writing. What she discovered will stun the literary world. She discovered the true identity of the man who wrote Shakespeare's works.
The question of who actually wrote Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of furious discussion amongst scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare's life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his plays and poems. How could a man who left school at 13 and apparently never left England have authored complex poetry or so enigmatically describe Renaissance Venice? Many alternative candidates have been put forward - Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, Elizabeth I - but none have stood up to serious scrutiny. Until now.
