| 1550 | 1560 | 1570 | 1580 | 1590 | 1600 | 1610 | 1620 | ||||||||||
| Reign of Edward VI 1547- 1553 |
Reign of Mary I 1553- 1558 |
Reign of Queen Elizabeth 1558-1603 |
Reign of James I 1603-1625 |
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1601 Trial of Essex |
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| William Shaksper of Stratford 1564-1616 | |||||||||||||||||
| Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban 1561-1626 | |||||||||||||||||
| Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 | |||||||||||||||||
| Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford 1550-1604 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1593 to 1604 Poems and thirteen plays published. (Venus & Adonis --1593 to Hamlet (2d Ed.) 1604 |
1608 1609 1622 Sonnets and three plays published. |
1623 Twenty plays first published. |
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Of the many others advanced as authors of "Shakespeare," Francis Bacon is the only candidate who was alive for the publication of the 1623 Folio. Several major plays, including the Tempest and Henry VIII, were never seen in print before 1623. |
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