hiwhat do mainstream scholars know? they've spent the past two hundred years with their heads in the wrong place.The facts are these: as far as I am aware there is not one scholar, with one femtometer of knowledge, about shakespeare.All is ifs and buts (mostly the latter).Name one article that states in absolute terms what the Sonnets are all about. Betcha can't.Try and convince a Jehova's W that Pythagoreans were correct. The same thing when talking to scholars.It's no surprise then to see that the plays marked as shakespeare don't think much of them.Inkpots is a word which comes to mind whenever shakespearean shcolar are mentioned.regardsssss

Wow, Ivkhan 2.0;  I guess you were right Donnie.Mikee, if you think you will get a fair hearing by denigrating scholarship on this forum you are barking up the wrong tree.  If there was substance to your claims mainstream scholars would jump on it and you would not have to make them on internet forums where they are not truly subject to scholarly scrutiny.  Truth is unlike ockroaches in that it loves the light while spurious claims do not.