Shakespeare’s Confidential Dossier: To Be Or Not To Be?

Most of us grew up being taught that “Shakespeare” was the sole author of the greatest body of literature to have ever been created by a single person. Were we collective dupes to perhaps the most skillful fraud ever to be perpetrated on a non-suspecting populace? Is everything we were taught about Shakespeare a cleverly orchestrated lie?

The actor and grain merchant William “Shakspere” perhaps served as a willing front for the playwright and poet whose achievements even today cannot be easi...