[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.

[Restorer]

I pretty much agree, but we studied this "controversy" for several weeks in a high school English class.

The funny part for me was that in 1500 play-writing had the approximate social status that writing for the soaps has today. Yet those who believe somebody else wrote the plays think anybody from Oxford to Bacon to QE1 was sneaking around writing them, using Shakespeare for cover.

Too funny.