Most people are sure that they know who London’s William Shakespeare was.

Almost all of us have been told, all of our lives, that it was a man from Stratford-upon-Avon named William Shakspere. It is claimed that he went to London and wrote as London’s William Shakespeare.

The name, Shakespeare, appears in London but not in Stratford.

The man Shakspere, appears in Stratford but not in London.

It is rarely mentioned that William Shakespeare is (supposedly) William Shakspere’s pen-name. But it has to be if it was him, because his name was Shakspere (pronounced Shack-Spur). So, Wil Shakespeare was, by that fact itself, a pen-name. But whose pen name was it really?

The Stratford man’s real name, ‘Shakspere’, was well known, referenced and recorded as his name in Stratford until about seventy years ago. At that point, Stratford’s William Shakspere began to be referred to only as ‘Shakespeare’.

He, London-Shakespeare, the actual person; is not in London’s historical record. No one says that they met him. No one says that they saw him act anywhere, No one wrote any letter mentioning anything at all about him. This man, the most famous playwright of the times, does not exist in the records as a living, breathing, person.

Stratford’s William Shakspere did not leave Stratford-upon-Avon to move to live in London. The Stratford man had no connection to the Shakespeare plays and poems. London’s Will Shakespeare, was someone’s pen name.

These posts are about who wrote as London-Shakespeare. I believe I have proved it was Anthony Munday, but comments about that and comments about proofs for any other candidate are welcome.