Hilarious. I never understood the Shakespeare authorship stuff.
Unfortunately, Idle hit the nail on the head: > How could a man who had only a grammar-school education and spoke Latin and a little Greek possibly have written something This is all about an obsession with credentials, metrics, and statistical probabilities. Basically, Shakespeare didn't fit the profile for a successful author, most of whom come from a fairly high socioeconomic class and have had advanced educations. So, according to the theory, if Shakespeare wasn't, demographically, like most successful writers, then he couldn't have been a successful writer, and, therefore, someone else must have written the plays. It's absurd, but you'd be surprised how many people rely on stats, metrics, and credentials to decide who or what to believe.