Anonymous

[Rev. Rye]

As far as I'm concerned, William Shakespeare wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare. Even if some other figure were shown to be the true author, that person still wrote under the name of William Shakespeare. It's rather like the question of stunt doubles; whether Sean Connery flew around with a Bell Rocket Belt jetpack or pilot Gordon Yeager did, it was still James Bond you saw on the screen.

To this day, I still have no idea what the rationale could be for denying that the works of Shakespeare were not written by him. I mean, Holocaust deniers usually have some anti-Semitic agenda, creationists are usually pushing Christianity (or Islam), but I haven't been able to figure out anything of the sort for the Anti-Stratfordian position. I suppose that there's always the possibility of class warfare.