Ah! the old Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare, because he wasn't a nobleman gambit has raised it's ugly head again. Try Mark Twain's theory, Shakespeare was written by another man with the same name. Shakespeare didn't actually write all the songs in his plays, he borrowed some. For the songs and their tunes see Peter Seng's 'Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare', 1967 (there are several earlier on the subject). A few songs are on my website in Scarce Songs files (with tunes). Marlowe wa killed in a tavern brawl about 20 years before Shakespeare died. What did the Earl of Oxford or Francis Bacon ever write that was similar to anything Shakespeare ever wrote? (Hint: Bacon wrote plays in 1588, and posthumous ones were publihed in 1594 and 1595, and De Vere/Oxford had one in 1584. De Vere is too early and Marlow died in 1593, a year before the earliest possible date for a play from Shakepeare.) Also look at Sam Schoenbaum's 'Shakespeare's Lives' for factual information about Shakespeare. I think this recently came out in paperback.