I have read that some historians doubt that Shakespeare could have written all of his works. IF he didn't, who did, and why allow Shakespeare to take the credit??
There's no credit given to the theories that Shakespeare didn't write his works, most of them hinge on the idea that Christopher Marlowe faked his death to avoid being arrested for writing libel. Not wanting to give up writing, he continued and gave the plays to Shakespeare to sign for himself.
The supposed evidence for this was a series of notes and manuscripts by Shakespeare, which apparently showed little consistency and a lot of similarity to the works of Marlowe. It's entirely untrue because none of Shakespeare's original writings survive.
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Is there any solid evidence that Shakespeare's works were written by others?
What are some of the arguments against Shakespeare's authorship?
60 plus candidates have been put forward as the man behind the name Shake-speare. This is an indication that the current accepted paradigm is not satisfactory, and thus probably not correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shakespeare_authorship_candidates
As of 1920, nearly all the candidates have been moved to fringe in favor of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who had all the proper qualifications to be Shakespeare, but his works had been "lost" and his identity all but forgotten by history. He was revealed in
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It was Edward de Vere. He left his name hidden in Sonnet 76.