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The only documentary evidence which you present is the same old canard that Shakespeare was writing after 1604. There is no evidence of this. Plays and the Sonnets were published after 1604, but there is nothing to indicate date of authorship no matter how hard Stratfordians twist the facts. It seems that Stratford had returned to his home by the end of 1604 to resume his career as a dealer in dry goods. He never staged a play for his beloved townsfolk, never seemed to own a book, and did not see to his children's education.

You can understand the scepticism. The fact that 60 names have been put forward as actual authors is testimony to the widespread dissatisfaction with Stratford as the author. But I don't expect Stratfordians to see the light soon; his connections to British nationalism have obscured his writings such that some attempt to read in them things that were never there. Contrary to Stratfordian belief Shakespeare was not a champion of the commoner but rather an apologist for feudalism. He was unconcerned with the hardships of the self-made man that Stratford represents; rather he was consumed with the problems of the nobility, mostly royal succession.

Stratfordians have converted the author of the works into a kind of Santa Claus who requires a suspension of logical thinking in favor of a belief in a kind of genius that more resembles freakism then anything else. Copernicus faced the same type of doubts, but eventually his reasoning became the standard. You can laugh at Oxfordians now, but your grandchildren will laugh at you.

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