It's almost as if you think sneering at an argument you haven't studied makes you look smart rather than stupid.
The paucity of information on Shakespeare's life has become a commonplace of theatrical criticism, though in fact we know quite a lot. Occasionally the records throw up an item that really does connect with the work. In December 1579 a young woman was drowned in the Avon at Tiddington, near Stratford. It seemed that she slipped in the mud on the river-bank but some thought of suicide. An inquest was held and ruled that the death was accidental. Already words from a play Shakespeare was to write years later arise in the mind: "Her death was doubtful," for this is a real-life pre-echo of the "Muddy death" of Ophelia (Hamlet, V.i.227, IV.vii.183). When we add that the young woman's name was Katherine Hamlett the association is simply inescapable. - A.D. Nuttall, "Shakespeare the Thinker", p 4
And tell, how farre thou dist our Lily out-shine, / Or sporting Kid or Marlowes mighty line. / And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke, / From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke / For names; but call forth thund'ring [Ae]schilus, / Euripides, and Sophocles to vs, / Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, / To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, / And shake a stage : Or, when thy sockes were on, / Leave thee alone, for the comparison / Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome / Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. / Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe, / To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. / He was not of an age, but for all time! [Ben Jonson's Eulogy to Shakespeare]