
Conspiracy: Who wrote Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare Didn't Write the Plays of Someone Other Than Shakespeare
The idea that Shakespeare didn't write the plays of someone else did is a conspiracy theory. It's only become such when other similar theories and ideas have been made in light of it. I don't think it's a legitimate use of academic time, because at least two universities in the world have taken it up as an academic cause. If you start doing that then you can just rewrite the past as your own fiction. And once it infiltrates the academy which it has, then I think that's a dangerous thing.
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