Hoffman's Theory
Hoffman was not the first to argue that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays attributed to him, nor was he even the first to suggest Marlowe as the main candidate. In fact three people—Wilbur G. Zeigler in 1895, Henry Watterson in 1916, and Archie Webster in 1923, had beaten him to it, but he denied having known about any earlier proponent for the first twelve years of his research into the subject, and he certainly achieved far more than any of them to bring it to the attention of a wider public.
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