I can’t say it’s not possible, But I will say that when one is even slightly in the realm of Shakespeare, one is bombarded, and now by students who google, as was not the case when I started, with deterrents from his mastery.
I don’t read this stuff. I will when someone comes out with something completely undeniable.
I am saying that, and anyone familiar with his works knows this, if there were a group of people alive at one time who could put this all together, it would be a miracle.
And that any woman of that time may have been educated at court, but she would have to have had an extensive knowledge of society, humanity, behavior, vice, virtue as well as a genius in the language, the French language, latin, Greek, Catholicism, the struggles of Catholicism against the British anti Catholic culture, a grasp of comedy and tragedy and how to put that forth, military tactics, the ways of men, just to start.
This screams, ‘alter Western Civilization history so the kids can feel even worse about themselves’ as is so common
Yup.
Reminds me of something Karl Keating said about people who were skeptical of Homer's authorship of "The Odyssey."
"Well, if it wasn't Homer, it was somebody else going by that name."