> My favorite is how, even in the realm of conspiracies that Shakespeare didn't write his plays, the posited true author is invariably another famous Elizabethan personality, e.g. Francis Bacon.
Surely, if such conspiracy theorising is to be anything other than random guessing, one needs some sort of corpus of the proposed author's work to which to compare. It's probably less than people don't think that a nobody could have written them than that there's no reasonable way to test that hypothesis.
Surely, if such conspiracy theorising is to be anything other than random guessing, one needs some sort of corpus of the proposed author's work to which to compare. It's probably less than people don't think that a nobody could have written them than that there's no reasonable way to test that hypothesis.