Exactly. One also wonders why Edward de Vere--if he's so well traveled, and if he wrote so convincingly about Italy in R and J (?? mostly don't they merely say it's hot out in R and J. ..?) would have attributed a sea-cost to Bohemia in The Winter's Tale.

Most of the dramatists of the period came from similar class backgrounds to Shakespeare--think about Marlowe and Jonson, Jonson in particular the son of a bricklayer and yet one of the more erudite writers of the period (he dismissed Shakespeare for having, by comparison to himself anyway, "little latin, less greek") . The burgeoning theater industry gave these folks a viable way to make money. Shakespeare deniers, as they try to say that WS couldn't have had enough life experience to write these plays, also overlook the degree to which WS rarely makes stuff up wholesale, but instead draws on a variety of widely available--in English, too--sources.