Roland Emmerich.Shakespeare And The Baconian Theory.

The Baconian later Oxonian theory goes something like this.Bacon or Oxford wrote the plays but because the theater was not a respectable profession for a gentlemen of their standing they let Shakespeare who was supposedly too ill educated and lower class to have written the plays himself take the credit.Their supposed reward for this was to see their works performed. I say performed because the plays were seldom printed to avoid other theater companys  from putting on their own versions.So Bacon would not even  have seen his work in print. This seems to be a new concept of vanity publishing.The question to be asked is why did people in the 16th century write plays? What was their motivation?.The simple answer is for money. Creative artists such as writers,painters and composers create their masterpieces to earn their living.A writer in the 16th and early 17th century could earn the most money by writing for the stage.There was no real system of copyright  and no great reading public.However to fill a theater day in day out ,week after week by writing  successful plays would entitle you to your cut of the takings and this would in time lead to real wealth by 16th century standards. It would appear that this is in fact what the actual historical William Shakespeare did as by the time he retired to his home town of Stratford on Avon he owned the second biggest house there plus a large amount of land.This seems to be one problem that the advocates of Baconian theory have with Shakespeare. He was keen on money and knew how to make it.How could the greatest literary genius of all time be so vulgar as to be interested in money!.