[Restorer]

Not to mention the long-running controversy over whether Bill actually wrote all those plays.

[Borges]

It's not a controversy its an ongoing form of benign mental illness/cultism among those who keep to that idea in the face of overwhelming proof to the contrary.

[Burkean]

I've heard that the controversy over Shakespeare's plays authorship was started in the 19th century, by educated "elitists" who were insulted by the idea that a man who hadn't been to college could produce the body of plays attributed to him.

And I do agree that playwriting wasn't considered that high class of a deal during Shakespeare's lifetime. It was a way to make a living, it was popular entertainment, and it wasn't even intended to be published.

[Dumb_Ox]

Not to mention the long-running controversy over whether Bill actually wrote all those plays.

Did you mean to invoke the authorship debate, or just point out the generally-settled fact that the Bard played script doctor and collaborator on some of the lesser works attributed to him?