He sure as Hell wasn’t some semi-literate that didn’t have any other member of his family that could read or write. That didn’t own a single book, manuscript or letter that was mentioned in his will. That wrote detailed descriptions of foreign countries he had never visited. That described details of the English Court that only someone close to the court could have known.
Maybe the real author wasn’t De Vere. Maybe it was Marlowe. Was he a nobleman? Or maybe a combination of several writers including Jonson. It didn’t necessarily have to be a nobleman but the author did need knowledge and training that we have no evidence that William Shakspere of Stratford possessed.
You can’t understand Shakespeare without understanding the politics of Elizabethan England. A pseudonym and metaphors were necessary to prevent angering ‘the powers that were’ when writing.
Go to YouTube and find the documentaries on the real author of the works of Shakespeare. Keep an open mind and then come back and tell us it can only have been the glovemaker’s son.
Marlowe died early on, and Jonson wrote his own poetic tribute to Shakespeare, by name, for the First Folio edition.
Yet true believers are nearly always impossible to convince otherwise, despite the mass of evidence to the contrary.
You have your opinions. I have mine. Carry on.