Yes perhaps we should look up when each work was registered this one is much more fully developed than Hart s and might precede Hart by several months although other sources say Schmucker was published 1853 so it might be an error Schmucker was a fierce critic of Strauss His book was titled Historic Doubts Respecting Shakespeare Illustrating Infidel Objections Againt the Bible and in it he anticipates almost every anti Stratfordian strategy including drawing a distinction between Shakespeare the man and Shakespeare the poet Shapiro says there s no evidence that the parody influenced any of the early anti Stratfordians and writes that Schmucker s book confirms that the competition to identify who was the first to deny that Shakespeare wrote the plays misses the point badly because anti Stratfordism was almost predestined given the sensibility and events of the 19th century