“The Justification of Shakespeare” is the result of twenty years of work by translator and philologist Marina Litvinova on the “cursed” question of modern Shakespearean studies, “Who wrote Shakespeare?” In her monograph, Marina Litvinova proves that the works of the great Shakespeare were created by two authors - Francis Bacon and the fifth Earl of Rutland. The author bases his version on written evidence, events of European history and facts from the biographies of famous historical figures.