No, my mind isn't closed, but it will take a lot to convince me -- as it should. The man's contemporaries said he wrote the plays, sonnets, and poems and I suspect that they should know. It would be quite a remarkable conspiracy to keep something like that secret among so many for so long.

And yes, it does strike me as a bit snobbish to assume that Shakespeare (whose early life is pretty much unaccounted for) was uneducated and untravelled.

But I will read the book and see what evidence there is.