That brings up another point: Did Shakespeare write these plays? When you look at what is known about him outside the plays and the theatre, it is inconceivable that he could have written those plays. When you come up with candidates of whom it might have been, I am greatly amused at how there are websites dedicated to proving each one is wrong because the guy wrote it is trying to prove his candidate is the right one. And they all sound so factual and objective and yet they can't all be right and end yet if all of them are wrong then we're back to saying the historical Shakespeare--the guy who held ordinary jobs, wrote very few letters and whose children someone told me were actually illiterate--wrote them and it just doesn't seem possible that he could.