Match the person to his claim to have written shakespeare's plays. 1. william shakespeare 2 a spy who faked his death but continued to write plays under the name of shakespeare 2. edward de vere 1 has biographical information that seems to match some events in shakespeare's work 3. francis bacon 4 most scholars accept this candidate 4. christopher marlowe 3 a famous writer who wrote shakespeare's plays on the side of a philosophical and political career