Final Question: Why Does Anyone Believe Shakespeare Wrote the Masterpieces?!
Hint: The answer's initials are F.F.
Everyone agrees Shakespeare wrote adaptations of old plays. Well, the “bad quartos” are those adaptations. And it is the literary masterpieces that were those old plays.
Brief Review
There really is no mystery here.
Over my last few posts, we have seen exactly what plays “by William Shakespeare” were published during Shakespeare’s life (and up until 1621)…