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The “Shakespeare authorship question,” the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him, has been around for a long time.
Shakespeare’s authorship was first questioned in the middle of the 19th century. According to Wikipedia, the controversy has since spawned a vast body of literature and more than 80 authorship candidates have been proposed, the most popular being Sir Francis Bacon; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Christopher Marlowe; and, William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.
In a recent essay, Lies are Unbekoming synthesised two separate investigations into who authored the works under the name William Shakespeare.
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We have come across Francis Bacon in previous articles. In a recent article, we noted that Francis Bacon and René Descartes’ philosophies became central to the development of modern science, with Bacon’s influence particularly strong in Britain and Descartes’ in France. Bacon championed the scientific method and viewed the imagination as a source of delusion. He also felt he could overcome God’s will.
Our article provided details about an interview with author Paul List, who said that at the end of his work Novos Organum, “[Bacon basically] says that: with the proper knowledge and through my system here we can, basically, mitigate the results and the consequences, the painful consequences of the fall, the fall of Adam and Eve.”
After reading List’s account, it should not be surprising that Matthew Ehret links Bacon to the establishment of the Royal Society and refers to him as an occultist. Ehret said:
In Elizabethan England, John Dee – using the moniker agent “007” – carried out espionage alongside his channeler Edward Kelley and set the stage for the Rosicrucian transformation of England from a nation to a global empire. Followers of Dee and occultist Sir Francis Bacon had established the British Royal Society which dealt principally in black magic rituals and alchemy even while Sir Isaac Newton played with numerology on behalf of ‘the Invisible College’ of sorcerers.
Magicians and Intelligence Operations, Occultism, child trafficking and Harry Houdini’s personal fight against both, The Exposé, 21 May 2024
We briefly explained what alchemic traditions are in another article, which you can read HERE. The Invisible College was a precursor group to the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is also sometimes referred to as the British Royal Society.
Francis Bacon is widely regarded as the foundational influence behind the Royal Society of London, which was formally established on 28 November 1660. Although Bacon died in 1626, his ideas profoundly shaped the society’s mission and methods.
Related: The Royal Society, the making of ‘science’ and the social history of truth, Taylor and Francis Online, 8 January 2018
We were intrigued then, when a recent essay linked Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare. In the essay, Lies are Unbekoming noted a researcher who “connects the Shakespeare deception to Francis Bacon’s larger project of empire-building through science, Freemasonry and social engineering.” So, we are republishing the essay as perhaps another piece in the puzzle.
The following is Lies are Unbekoming’s essay titled ‘The Shakespeare Deception: Authorship, Empire and Manufactured Myths’. We have split the essay into 5 parts. Below is the first part; we will be publishing additional parts in subsequent days. If you would like to read the article in one sitting, you can read it on Substack HERE.
The Shakespeare Deception: Authorship, Empire and Manufactured Myths Part 1
Preface
Regular readers may wonder why I’m departing from my usual territory of medical deception, pharmaceutical fraud, and health freedom to explore a 400-year-old literary mystery. The answer is simple: empires are built on myths, and the myths that shape our minds often shape our bodies. The same power structures that tell us to “trust the Science” once told us to trust in the divine genius of an illiterate businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon. The techniques of manufacturing consent haven’t changed – only the subject matter has.
The Shakespeare deception is patient zero in the epidemic of official stories that now plague our institutions. If you can convince a civilization that its greatest literary genius needed no education, owned no books and left no manuscripts, you can convince that same civilisation of anything – that novel genetic therapies are traditional vaccines, that censorship protects democracy, that sickness is health. The Shakespeare hoax was the proof of concept for every institutional lie that followed.
This essay synthesises two remarkable explorations of the Shakespeare authorship question. The first is ‘Why the Shakespeare Hoax is so Important’ on The Hidden Life Is Best by Robert Fredrick, whose February 2025 investigation connects the Shakespeare deception to Francis Bacon’s larger project of empire-building through science, Freemasonry and social engineering. The second, and the true inspiration for this piece, is Chapter 7 of ‘Official Stories: Counter-Arguments for a Culture in Need‘ by the late Liam Scheff, whose brilliant mind we lost far too soon.
Scheff understood something profound: that you cannot free someone from one deception by simply presenting facts about that deception. The mind protected by one official story will protect itself with others. But Liam found a backdoor – use a “safe” deception like Shakespeare to teach people how to recognise deception itself. Once someone sees how the Shakespeare myth was constructed, they begin to see the construction of other myths. It’s diagnostic: if you can see through Shakespeare, you can see through other deceptions.
In his chapter on Shakespeare – which everyone should read in full – Scheff accomplished something remarkable. He made Edward de Vere human, made the plays biographical, and in doing so, made literature matter again. He showed us that great art comes from lived experience, not magical inspiration. That genius requires education, not just talent. That the stories power tells us about our culture’s foundations are invariably lies designed to serve power’s purposes.
Liam dedicated his life to exposing official stories, from HIV/AIDS to vaccination to Shakespeare. He paid a price for his clarity, as truth-tellers always do. This essay is, in part, a tribute to his courage and insight. He taught us that official stories are never innocent, that they always serve someone’s agenda, and that the cost of believing them is our own autonomy and understanding.
So, while this essay may seem off-topic for a medical freedom Substack, it’s actually about the same thing all my work is about: how power uses stories to control populations, how myths become more powerful than facts and how the truth, however long suppressed, eventually finds its way to light. The Shakespeare deception is the template for every official story that followed. Understanding it is understanding how we got here – and perhaps, how we get out.
To Liam Scheff (1973-2017), who saw through all the official stories and had the courage to say so. Your work lives on in everyone who questions what they’re told to believe.
I. Introduction: The Greatest Literary Fraud in History
The most celebrated writer in the English language left behind no books, wrote no letters and raised children who couldn’t read. His will, meticulously detailing his earthly possessions down to his “second best bed,” mentions no manuscripts, no plays, no poems – not a single scrap of paper connecting him to the works that would immortalise his name. This is the paradox of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, a paradox that has festered at the heart of English literature for over four centuries.
What if the greatest cultural icon of the English-speaking world was a carefully crafted lie? What if the plays and sonnets we attribute to Shakespeare were written by someone else entirely – someone whose biography actually explains the works, whose education matches their erudition, whose life experiences mirror their plots? And what if this deception wasn’t merely the vanity of a hidden author, but a deliberate manipulation designed to forge national identity and build an empire?
The evidence increasingly points to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the true author of the Shakespeare canon. But understanding who wrote the plays is only half the revelation. The other half lies in recognising how the myth of the Stratford businessman was deliberately cultivated and exploited to serve the building of the British Empire – a psychological operation so successful that it helped transform a small island nation into the greatest imperial power in history.
This isn’t merely a literary detective story. Understanding the Shakespeare deception reveals how manufactured myths shape national identity, how false narratives become foundational truths and how power maintains itself through the stories we tell our children. In an age where we increasingly question official narratives, the Shakespeare authorship question stands as perhaps the oldest and most successful example of consensus reality being deliberately constructed to serve hidden agendas. The stakes couldn’t be higher: if Shakespeare is a lie, what else that we consider foundational truth might also be carefully crafted fiction?
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I’ve visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage-what does that prove?
Everything’s a sham-God’s Word excepted of course.
Yes indeed Liam Schiff was absolutely correct, and exploring the de Vere identity does greatly enhance our appreciation of the plays – see my book ‘The Bard and the Gunpowder Plot, On the 400th anniversary of the greatest literary hoax of al time’ about the real author! The supreme, hidden genius.