You can say many things about William Shakespeare, but it is
quite apparent that he never let the truth get in the way of a
good story. He was a genius who wrote plays that entertained and
if that meant that historical veracity had to give way, on
occasion, to dramatic impact or poetic notions then so be it. It
has a certain sense of inevitability then, to the fact that so
many people are so eager for a good story that they will deny he
wrote anything at all. There are many theories extant today
about who may have been the actual author of the works we
attribute to Shakespeare. If you’re new to this field of
conspiracy you may be suprised to find out that such people as
Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain and Helen Keller believed that it
could not have been Shakespeare. There are several theories on
the authorship question but they’re united by one thing: a
refusal to believe that such a literary genius could have been a
humble playwright from Stratford-upon-avon. The core of any
Shakespearean authorship conspiracy is