IT IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR WRITERS TO USE "PEN NAMES"...ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE KEEN TO HIDE THEIR REAL IDENTITY...FOR POLITICAL OR SOCIAL REASONS...
LONDON WAS FILLED WITH WELL EDUCATED NOBILITY AT THE TIME OF SHAKESPEARE WHO COULD HAVE BEEN EAGER TO WRITE UNDERCOVER...
VERY LIKELY SHAKESPEARE WAS MERELY A CONDUIT FOR ONE OR MORE WRITERS TO GET THEIR WORK BEFORE THE PUBLIC... WITHOUT HAVING THEIR PERSONAL NAMES AND REPUTATIONS AT RISK AND EXPOSED....REMEMBER THEATRE WAS SLIGHTLY DISREPUTABLE AT THE TIME...
THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS INVOLVED IN THE THEATRE IN LONDON AT THE TIME...AND WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AT IT...
IT'S POSSIBLE THAT SHAKESPEARE WAS MORE OF A PRODUCER/DIRECTOR IN TODAYS LANGUAGE...RATHER THAN A WRITER.... AND THAT THE PLAYS HE PRODUCED AND DIRECTED WHERE...BY AGREEMENT OF ALL CONCERNED...ATTRIBUTED TO HIM AS THEIR CREATOR....
IN ANY EVENT THERE IS SOMETHING VERY FISHY ABOUT SHAKESPEARE AS THE SOLE WRITER OF THE PLAYS.... AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT....
REMINDS ME OF THE OLD STRATEMYER "SYNDICATE" WHO HAD "FRANKLIN DIXON" WRITING ALL THOSE "TOM SHIFT" AND OTHER BOOKS...BACK IN THE 1920's.
"FRANKLIN DIXON" DID NOT EXIST...! "HE" WAS RATHER A CATCH ALL NAME FOR A STABLE OF HACK WRITERS WHO TURNED OUT MILLIONS OF WORDS...FOR THEIR EMPLOYER...WITHOUT RECIEVING ANYTHING BUT A PAY CHECK...!
