> I'm looking for any (and all) text written by Shakespeare's
> contemporaries. Anything by Bacon, De Vere, Fletcher,
> Queen Elizabeth and others would be extremely helpful.
The Oxford Text Archive holds a number of texts relevant to the above
subject. Specifically you may be interested in the Claremont Corpus of
Elizabethan Verse, produced by Ward Elliott, which would appear
tailor-made for your study. The Corpus contains works by all of the
authors you list above and more, and was the basis of a report produced by
the Shakespeare Clinic in 1989 entitled "Matching Shakespeare. Computer
Testing for Elizabethan texts for common authorship with Shakespeare".
We have a copy of the report (in paper form), please contact the OTA for
further details,
Yours,
Alan Morrison
Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/