Personally, I (admittedly no scholar but I, like the man in the bell tower at Notre Dam, have a gift for hunches) think they're dead right. I've always thought that the whole Shakespeare thing was thought up as a joke. In fact, my own theory is that even the name Shakespeare is a jokey reference to a trembling extra in a crowd scene. The mystery is why would they (whoever 'they' were) do such a thing. I think it was probably a deal set up one drunken night in a tavern somewhere. A laugh, probably a wager on how long they could keep it going.
I also suspect that like the theory that the Vatican has a number of hidden 'gospels' that prove Jesus lived in Surbiton and rode a bicycle with a basket on the handlebars, someone somewhere knows the truth concerning Shakespeare. Of course the reason that these 'secrets' will remain forever hidden is that if they ever became public knowledge then you might as well wave the neighbourhood goodbye.
Personally I blame the Freemasons.







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Nothing to do with this post but,
have you seen the ad under the main story on page 3 of your favourite local newspaper this week? ;o)
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