Finally the light splits the darkness

I'm feeling a little vindicated. Since the year 1998, I have had the perspective (and have passed it on over the last 12 years through presentations) that Shakespeare didn't write the Shakespearean body of plays. There are 37 of them, all world class plays. A number of candidates have been suggested, but the strongest three candidates are Edward DeVere, Christopher Marlowe, and Frances Bacon. A year and a half ago, I met a world renowned history scholar, Ross Dunn, a professor at San Diego State University. He and I had quite a few conversations, one of them centering on the possibility that Shakespeare didn't write the plays. He was quick to send me a book he had bought about the matter while he had been in England teaching one summer.

The matter has been around over 200 years, but has come to light in an irreversible manner over the last 20 years because of scholars getting involved. A dissertation has even been devoted to the subject.

So, imagine my great surprise and immediate feeling of vindication when I saw a commercial for a movie coming out this fall that began, "What if Shakespeare didn't write a single line of 37 plays he reportedly wrote." The commercial went on to show a few scenes of the movie that apparently takes the view that Edward DeVere wrote the plays. The commercial contained the lines, "All the world's a stage and we merely the players," and a few others, then ended with the words, "We've all been played."

Love it! Finally... and in a format the world will actually see and understand (not in a book, that is). You know where I will be on opening night in September. Loving every second.