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While a multitude of arguments exist to support the various alternative authors, some of them see common to most of them.

Biographical coincidences with the works

Travels match play settings, events in plays can be connected to some event in proposed author's life

Oxford, Neville, Marlowe (sonnets)

Verbal parallels

parallels between texts in the canon, and writings by other authors— Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville

Ciphers and cryptograms

hidden in the works or the funerary monument—all of them

Family connections

Oxford, Derby, Neville

Theatre connections

Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville, Derby

Reason for secrecy