One of the arguments that Wm S was not the author of the plays traditionally attributed to him, is that so many of the plays are set in Italy, yet he had not travelled there or been otherwise connected. Well move over Earl of Oxford, this BOMBSHELL!!! manuscript places an Italian work in the Shakespeare family home. I’d better whip out a PhD dissertation this weekend before a dozen scholars beat me to it...
All you need is an A.I. assistant to churn out the paper. Actual research can be invented out of thin air or by algorithm.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain..................