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.
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.