Fact – William Shaksper of Stratford was mocked on the London stage, in multiple instances, for being illiterate, a braggart, a pretender, and for slightly changing the spelling of his name.

Fact – The Stratford tourist industry sells portraits of a man, who they claim is Shaksper, despite the fact that not a single PhD in art history not on their payroll believes it to be him. Why do they need to fraudulently posit this portrait as Shakes? Because they have no legitimate portrait, and if he did write the works, someone would have painted his picture.

Fact – Eminent Shakespearen scholar E.A. Honiggman lamented late in his career that he did not pursue scholarship of early dating of the plays. He urged the scholarly community to do so “no matter the results.” He recounted how as a young scholar he’d been warned off this avenue by the “whales” (read tourist industry), who told him that such pursuits would damage his career.

Even now, the heavy, corrupting hand of the tourist industry is evidence where every bit of scholarship into ‘collaboration’ is celebrated while remarkable work such as Dr. McCarthy’s into the precedence of tragedy over comedy in literary references is ignored. as that work raises troubling questions the tourist industry is unable to answer.