Original sentence: All anti-Stratfordian arguments share several common characteristics: They all attempt to disqualify William Shakespeare as the author due to perceived inadequacies in his education or biography; they all offer supporting arguments for a more acceptable substitute candidate; and they all postulate some type of conspiracy to protect the author's true identity to account for the historical evidence supporting William Shakespeare as the author and to explain the absence of any supporting documented evidence for any other person.In addition, anti-Stratfordians consider the Shakespeare's works themselves as evidence for attribution and look for parallels between the fictional characters and events portrayed therein and the biography of their preferred candidates or textual parallels between the works and the known works of their candidate.The recorded biography of William Shakespeare of Stratford (separate from all literary records and commentary) consists of mundane personal records—vital records of his birth, marriage, and death, tax records, lawsuits to recover debts, and real estate transactions—and lacks any record of education, which anti-Stratfordians say reveal a person much different than the author they say is reflected in the works
Edited sentence: All anti-Stratfordian theories share several common characteristics.In addition, anti-Stratfordians consider the Shakespeare's works themselves as evidence for attribution and look for parallels between the fictional characters and events portrayed therein and the biography of their preferred candidates.The recorded biography of William Shakespeare of Stratford (if one eliminates all literary records and commentary) consists of mundane personal records—vital records of his birth, marriage, and death, tax records, lawsuits to recover debts, and real estate transactions—and lacks any record of education, which anti-Stratfordians say reveal a person much different than the author they say is reflected in the works.They attempt to disqualify William Shakespeare as the author by explaining away the historical evidence supporting his authorship, and they then offer reasons for the substitution of their candidate and attempt to explain the absence of any documented evidence for their candidate by postulating some type of conspiracy to protect the true author's identity