Shakespeare is Shakespeare, or is he not? Edwin Bormann addresses one of the most controversial questions in literary research: the Bacon-Shakespeare question. It posits that the works famously attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by Francis Bacon, a contemporary of Shakespeare, who was a philosopher, historian, naturalist, and jurist. Bormann introduces the protagonists of this debate and vividly presents the arguments for and against the Bacon theory. In the end, the question remains for each reader to answer: Shakespeare or not Shakespeare. This is a carefully edited reprint of the original edition from 1902.