The real Shakespeare
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Why would someone like Sir Francis Bacon not want credit for authoring all these works? Whoever actually authored them obviously put an insane amount of work and passion into them.
The profession of writing wasn't looked on well through a large part of history. It wasn't something gentlemen of means did professionally. Many people of means wrote, but published under a pseudonym.
My guess is that Shakespeare was the town dummy and Bacon (maybe others with him) threw Shakespeare's name on them as a joke. People at the time knew who really wrote them, but nobody thought (or cared) to make a note about the reference for the readers in the future.