Shakespeare was really the tanner’s son from Stratford-on-Avon he is traditionally presumed to be. The contrary theories are generally built on air.

After all, the circle of people actively involved in the theatre in London circa 1600 must have been very small and gossip must have made its way around very quickly. Secrets would have been hard to keep in that world.

Consider New York today. The same people are involved in Broadway productions year after year, they all know each other, and they don’t really have secrets from one another.

So what, you might ask? So this … if a Noble Lord, like Bacon or Oxford or the other candidates for being the ghost writer of “Shakespeares” plays, had actualy been ghosting them, he would have needed collaborators within that world. They would have been sitting on a huge secret. I think over time everybody would have come to know it.

The conspiracy theories presume a capacity for covertness that seldom exists in this sort of context, IMHO. So, the real author of Shakespeares works was most likely, Shakespeare himself.

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