So a movie is coming out based on the belief (held by some, I kid you not) that William Shakespeare was a fraud. Because, of course, no mere peasant could have written words of such beauty, such eloquence, and certainly not so frequently. I mean, come on! 37 plays, 154 sonnets? A peasant, bah!
So why, if all this was the work of some intellectual noble or aristrocrat, did a peasant get all the credit? Well, of course, it's because no well-bred British man of good standing in those days could be seen to be writing! That's too much like actual work!
That said, I do want to see this.
conspiracy theory movies always do well
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