Hard to believe anyone could doubt that Shakespeare was the author of his plays. It's just so stupid. And yet there are Rylance and Jacobi, among them. So many contemporaries attest to his being a great playwright and actor, owner of the theatre with Burbage, his whole life in Stratford documented, what is there to question? So ridiculous.
This authorship business is wearing a bit thin. It doesn't have anything to do with promoting that film in which two particular actors are featued, by any chance?
Ever since reading about Sir Henry Neville, I have considered him the strongest contender as the main author of the Shakespeare plays. Someone highly educated, wealthy and well travelled. Never liked the claims it must be an already famous writer/poet, like Marlowe or Bacon.
