Stratfordians: "Oh this play seems to have influenced Shakespeare, in fact, if you add the missing characters from The Taming of A Shrew to the botched folio version of The Taming of the Shrew as Alexander Pope did, it makes more sense dramatically. Just a weird coincidence."
Stratfordians: "It seems like Shakespeare was deeply influenced by the translation of Cardanus Comfort, which was co-incidentally dedicated to the Earl of Oxford, commissioned by him, & contains a dedication written by him. This is another coincidence."
All of this "weirdness" disappears when you realize that many of these "coincidences" are just cases of Oxford's anonymous juvenalia being compared to his later revisions & perfections of the same material.
"The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet" published by Arthur Brooke in 1562 is not the "inspiration" of the later Romeo & Juliet-- it was one of Oxford's juvenalias which he returned to & perfected after incorporating more incidences from his own life into it.
Of course the most absurd proposition is to incorporate the POEMS of Shake-speare (devoted to an imprisoned noble who was at one time engaged to Oxford's daughter), especially the autobiographical & chronlogically arranged Sonnets, into the biography of a ghost.
Stratfordians: "Yes, it appears that the Fair Youth in the Sonnets is the very same Earl of Southampton Henry Wriothesly of the dedications to Venus & Adonis & The Rape of Lucrece... we don't understand why or how this upstart crow named William Shakespeare knew him."
"But why would a noble write under a fake name during a time of intense court intrigue over the succession of the crown after Elizabeth... Even when Elizabeth recognized herself in the figure of Richard II saying "'I am Richard II know you not that?"
It's a crime that proper scholarship on this is considered insanity while the "proper scholars" literally hallucinate a biography of a Magical Commoner which is then taught as "the unquestionable truth."
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