For 10 points, name this conspiratorial debate over possible alternatives for the mainstreamidentification of the author of plays such as Hamlet.
Descriptive answers acceptable. One faction in this debate has a two-part theory whose second part claimsthat one woman unknowingly produced a son through an incestesous relationship with her son. Anotherfaction in this debate advanced the claim that the use of the Latin word honorificabilitudinitatibus was asecret cipher. One faction in this debate interprets the line "our (*) ever-living Poet" as posthumous praise. Acommon argument used by factions in this debate is that the mainstream answer only attended a grammar school,if at all. Popular solutions to this question include the 6th Earl of Derby, the 17th Earl of Oxford, Francis Baconand Charles Marlowe. For 10 points, name this conspiratorial debate over possible alternatives for the mainstreamidentification of the author of plays such as Hamlet.
Descriptive answers acceptable. One faction in this debate has a two-part theory whose second part claimsthat one woman unknowingly produced a son through an incestesous relationship with her son.
Shakespearean authorship question [or who really wrote Shakespeare's plays, the true person behind Shakespeare, Shaksper isn't Shakespeare, Shakespeare was a front man and equivalents; or Baconian/ Oxfordian/Marlovian/Derbyian theory of Shakespearean authorship; or less coherent answers such as Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare]