Reply #21: A) Shakespeare was not of that period [View All]

[BurtWorm]

2) There's a theory that the plays were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, and that theory is based on major gaps in William of Stratford's biography as well as many similarities between Vere and the protagonists of the plays and sonnets. Doesn't mean that the theory is correct, but please don't make a grander claim for it than the theory makes for itself.

And iii) the bar is extremely low among those who believe in a historical Jesus for textual or other proof of his historical existence.