Saunders insists it is worth exploring. “Fulke spent the equivalent of £300,000 [nearly $500,000] today on a marble sarcophagus at St Mary's,” he told the Telegraph. “No man would build something like that and leave it empty. There is definitely something down there and we want to find out what it is.”

Were the numerous works, including plays and poems, attributed to William Shakespeare really written by the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon? There have been plenty of scholars convinced otherwise, and candidates other than Greville include Sir Francis Bacon, fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe and others.

Another Shakespeare mystery. The only the truth will ever be known is if someone developed a working time machine and we could go back into the past.

Were the numerous works, including plays and poems, attributed to William Shakespeare really written by the actor from Stratford-upon-Avon?

The "Blue bloods" just cannot accept that a man of humble beginnings could attain such singular immortality by virtue of his own achievements and accomplishments.

The DeVere-attribution campaign, financed by nobility, has failed to convince credible scholars, particularly the scholar with whom I am most in agreement, David Bevington, that the Bard was anything other than what how his literary and historical personage are biographically presented.