Primrose Road

In attempting to contribute an article to RationalWiki about the Shakespeare authorship "debate" -- relevant in my view only because of the ways in which the arguments behind it resemble Intelligent Design and various pseudohistorical propositions -- I have overlooked one important factor: any great idea I have after 20mg of Flexeril is probably not such a great idea after all.

I am also not what one would call a "good writer," especially when it comes to types of writing I encounter outside my specific field of study. In fact, this is one reason why I blog; I need to constantly write in order to keep my writing skills at a level where I can at least cogently express my thoughts for academic papers.

So I'm putting a request out there: if you're a better writer than I, and feel that you can better express the reasons why (1) Shakespeare's plays were for the most part accurately attributed to the guy from Stratford, and (2) the argument "one author wrote another author's plays" simply doesn't make sense in the context of what we know about writing and stage practices in the English Renaissance, please contribute a better article than the one I did.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of a door to nowhere on the third story of the Starbucks on 86th and Broadway: