It’s shocking, I know, but in the 21st century you can still read things like this on the internet:
Four decades after Charlton Ogburn’s Mysterious William Shakespeare and over a hundred years after John Thomas Looney’s “Shakespeare” Identified, this ugliness is still coddled on 21st social media platforms.
After articles in Atlantic (1991), Washington Post (1994), Time (1999), Harpers (1999), US News and World Report (2000), The New York Times (2002), University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Atlantic (2019), after documentaries by Frontline, 1604 Productions, Controversy Films and Vision Films, Stratfordians still feel empowered to begin a conversation about authorship by accusing skeptics of being class snobs.
Such is the mystic power of the myth of untutored genius having greatness thrust upon it. Don’t question it or an untutored genius will call you out as a class snob for studying too much.
To help redress this problem, I put together this “Shakespeare Skeptics Honor Roll.”
Designed for speed reading, even an untutored genius can use it to efficiently determine that calling authorship skeptics snobs is just pissing in the wind.
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