A fierce critic of the Higher Critic David Friedrich Strauss and his fellow "Modern Infidels," Schmucker unwittingly anticipated the Shakespearean authorship question with a mocking demonstration that "historic doubts regarding Christ" were "equally applicable to Shakespeare."
Schmucker, a fierce critic of the Higher Critic David Friedrich Strauss and his contemporaries, unwittingly anticipated the Shakespearean authorship question by highlighting the parallels between doubts about Christ's historicity and those surrounding Shakespeare's authorship.