Life of William Shakespeare of his plays, presumably as a selling point. There is a tradition that Shakespeare, in addition to writing many of the plays his company enacted and concerned with business and financial details as part-owner of the company, continued to act in various parts, such as the ghost of Hamlet's father, Adam in "As You Like It", and the Chorus in "Henry V". He appears to have moved across the River Thames to Southwark sometime around 1599. In 1604, Shakespeare acted as a matchmaker for his landlord's daughter. Legal documents from 1612, when the case was brought to trial, show that
History of the Shakespeare authorship question (no relation). She discussed her theories with British scholars and writers. In 1856 she wrote an article in "Putnam's Monthly" in which she insisted that Shakespeare of Stratford would not have been capable of writing such plays, and that they must have expressed the ideas of an unspecified great thinker. In September 1856 William Henry Smith wrote a letter which was subsequently published in a pamphlet, "Was Lord Bacon the author of Shakespeare's plays?: a letter to Lord Ellesmere" (1856), expressing his view that Francis Bacon himself had written the works. In the preface to a subsequent book, "Bacon and