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Michael Penn wrote: Anybody would wish that the kind of direct evidence that exists for contemporaries of Shakespeare also existed for the author.
SB replied: What kind of direct evidence is there for Shakespeare's contemporaries but lacking for him?
And what about "Hand D" in the manuscript of Sir Thomas More?
Michael Penn wrote: To be succinct: it's not impossible that Stratford Will was Shakespeare. For Stratfordians, that's good enough.
SB replied: It's the generally accepted opinion of virtually everyone that the William Shakespeare who died in Stratford Upon Avon in 1616 and the William Shakespeare described as being the author of the plays in the First Folio in 1623 were one and the same.
Michael Penn wrote: For doubters, it's not.
SB replied: Doubters can doubt all they want. But if they want to overturn the overwhelming consensus that the William Shakespeare who died in Stratford Upon Avon in 1616 and the William Shakespeare described as being the author of the plays in the First Folio in 1623 were one and the same, they'll have to provide evidence or compelling arguments. To date, they've done neither.
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