This second of a six-part series of videos treats the writing of the plays of Shakespeare as a crime scene with two suspects – William Shakspere of Stratford on Avon and Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Using the testimony of hostile witnesses i.e. academic scholars (“Stratfordians”) I ask for whom the circumstantial evidence is stronger. The two categories I analyze are characters in Hamlet and Idiosyncratic topic events.