[onedoug]

...where as Edward Devere has hundreds of writings, educational background, travel background, and military background one would need to have to be able to write such works.

...As well as the elitist fellow snobs to maintain such late 18th century sophistry to this day.

Ben Jonson knew Shakespeare and added his homage in Heminges' & Condell's First Folio edition. Moreover, Shakespeare was attacked - by name and by play - by numerous critics over the course of his literary output. He definitely wrote the Sonnets to which numerous stylistic, alliterative, poetic and prosaic standards can be authoritatively ascertained and compared, none of which can be said for your favorite nobleman, and for whom you too mentioned nothing as to any measure of detail in by your first post. So who was "driving-by" in this?

Oh, and by all means, Merry Christmas.

[castlegreyskull]

The one word response “nonsense” is a drive by.

[castlegreyskull]

Also, William Shakespeare has no record of any formal education. His play included dialects that come from various parts of Europe, all of which Shakespeare had no record of visiting, but Edward DeVere has. So you are basically suggestion that he Shakespeare was simply a genius at birth, and knew all this without any world experience. Very unlikely.