ridiculous.
this is not new talk. its a whole bunch of people who are too ignorant to comprehend how intelligent other humans could possibly be.
they are like moon landing conspiracy theorists. if the argument is 'the plays are too smart to have been written by someone who didn't go to school' then Da Vinci couldn't have drawn a helicopter because he didn't have a pilots license and Paine couldn't have written his essays because he didn't live in a democracy. You can't teach someone to do something that hasn't been done before. His work is not the product of executed convention... it is revolutionary and an invention of intelligence in and of itself. The writer of the work is clearly a savant, and anyone who reads it can see that his details in feilds beyond the english language are not always accurate and the parts that are accurate could easily be attributed to someone who simply reads a lot and has friends in an international court.
If he didn't write them, then who did? A group of actor's and writers working together? Because one man could not have complete these?
I find it even harder to believe that a group of people... or even TWO people could create work as cohesive and complete as his work. The great works of human achievement are always out of the mind of a single artist or thinker, and they are always of too large a scope for the ignorant to accept.
One man wrote these plays. And every piece of evidence and logic from over 400 years of well documented history points to that man being William Shakespeare. I refuse to believe that the most amazing collection of work in the history of communicable language was written by someone who refused to take personal credit for it, and instead created and progressed a patsy that fooled Queen Elizabeth, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, the entire English Court, and 400 years of literary scholars, until a group of oxymoronic University theatre teachers, who spend most of their days misteaching the meaning of the word 'wherefor', decided that Hamlet is too intelligent for someone who didn't have a college a degree to have written it.
It's confounding... insulting even. Lay off it, already.