Editing Walter Raleigh (section)

===Writing Shakespeare===
{{see_also|List of Shakespeare authorship candidates|Shakespeare authorship question}}
In 1845, Shakespeare scholar [[Delia Bacon]] first proposed that a group of authors had actually written the plays later attributed to [[William Shakespeare]], the main writer being Walter Raleigh.{{sfn|Farrand|2013}}{{sfn|Hechinger|2011}} Later, George S. Caldwell asserted that Raleigh was actually the sole author.{{sfn|Wallechinsky|Wallace|1981}} These claims have been supported by other scholars throughout subsequent years, including [[Albert J. Beveridge]] and [[Henry Pemberton]], but are rejected by the majority of Shakespearean scholars today.{{efn|{{Harvnb|Kathman|2003|p=621}}: "...antiStratfordism has remained a fringe belief system"; {{Harvnb|Schoenbaum|1991|p=450}}; {{Harvnb|Paster|1999|p=38}}: "To ask me about the authorship question ... is like asking a palaeontologist to debate a creationist's account of the fossil record."; {{Harvnb|Nelson|2004|pp=149–151}}: "I do not know of a single professor of the 1,300-member Shakespeare Association of America who questions the identity of Shakespeare ... antagonism to the authorship debate from within the profession is so great that it would be as difficult for a professed Oxfordian to be hired in the first place, much less gain tenure..."; {{Harvnb|Carroll|2004|pp=278–279}}: "I have never met anyone in an academic position like mine, in the Establishment, who entertained the slightest doubt as to Shakespeare's authorship of the general body of plays attributed to him."; {{Harvnb|Pendleton|1994|p=21}}: "Shakespeareans sometimes take the position that to even engage the Oxfordian hypothesis is to give it a countenance it does not warrant."; {{Harvnb|Sutherland|Watts|2000|p=7}}: "There is, it should be noted, no academic Shakespearian of any standing who goes along with the Oxfordian theory."; {{Harvnb|Gibson|2005|p=30}}: "...most of the great Shakespearean scholars are to be found in the Stratfordian camp..."}}