Shakespeare was a fraud

[Statilius the Epicurean]

What is there to discuss? Should we do a thread about 9/11 conspiracies too?

[Statilius the Epicurean]

It seems to be a mixture of aforementioned snobbery and that weird belief that writers can only write things from their direct experience. Shakespeare seemed to live a rather mundane life of a provincial well off commoner, which astounds people who want their writers to be huge personalities who draw their own messy life into the script.

I feel that the nature of writing plays for a specific theatre company that the author would know intimately means there would be a lot of strange logical leaps to claim that the author was in fact some distant aristocrat.

Shakespeare should have stayed in his lane and only wrote about cloth merchants.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

How is it that the Shakespeare authorship debate became this subject that is routinely taught and analyzed, with seemingly well educated figures coming out in favour of the idea? Is it that very British academic trend of wanting to be interesting rather than right? or is it just boredom?

I think you're mistaken about the level of support the conspiracy theory has. No serious scholar (in academia or elsewhere) has ever supported it.