Sigh, I wonder if Joyce scholars ever encounter Joyce-denying posts, and if so, whether they can remain sanguine enough to ignore them to focus on more important things. ..

The notion that the grammar school education Shakespeare likely received was insufficient to give him a basis to write the plays is simply false, as is trapdoor's recent discussion of Shakespeare publication history (off the top of my head, Lear circulated in quarto in 1608), as is the conception of early modern authorship such that authors can only write what they know. . read, for example, Tiffany Stern's Making Shakespeare (or McDonald's Bedford Companion to Shakespeare); it'll make Shakespeare's output seem far less singular and exceptional, and you'll get a better sense of early modern theater culture in general, of which WS was one part (it'll also explain why playing companies, who owned the scripts, were careful about not letting them be published while the play could still be put on & draw audiences). . .