Stephen Greenblatt, author of the Shakespeare biography Will in the World, has said that while the author of Edward II might have been capable of writing Richard II, he cannot believe that the man who wrote The Jew of Malta could also have written The Merchant of Venice.
An English professor friend of mine gives her students some of Edward de Vere’s poems to let them see for themselves how vastly inferior to Shakespeare’s the earl’s writing was.
According to The Hackenthorpe Book of Lies, Chuck Berry wrote many of Shakespeare’s plays. That is my favorite among the alternative authorship theories.
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