Billy Shakespeare

First off, this is not news.
But I just found out about the controversy over the identity of the author of the works of "Shakespeare."
It's been ongoing since the 19th Century, but it keeps getting resurrected.

In the 1800's, scholars who were critical of William Shakespeare's work began to theorize that he was not actually the author of the plays and sonnets published under his name. 

The Evidence that he Didn't Write Them:

• William Shakespeare was a successful Real-Estate tycoon (maybe they used his name because he was the financial backer of the actual author)
• William Shakespeare had a good education, but nothing suggests that it was good enough to prepare him to reshape the English language and forever impact literature. He never went to University.
• William Shakespeare had never left England (he hardly ever even left London,) and many of his plays took place in Italy or France. 
• There was an English nobleman whose poetic style was very similar to that of the plays. His name was Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. He had a better education, and he had traveled through Europe. 

Why I DON'T CARE who wrote them: 

(I'm going to refer to the author just as Shakespeare, for sanity's sake.) 

• Almost 2,000 of the words we still use today were invented by Shakespeare.
• The dramatic structure of today's literature is based on Shakespeare's work.
• Modern theaters themselves are shaped after the architecture of Shakespeare's theater, The Globe.
• Shakespeare's works are the clearest surviving link between Old English (which does not even resemble what we speak and write today) and Middle English/moving into Modern English. Shakespeare's work helped bridge the gap.
• Disney's hidden innuendos (don't deny that they exist!) are patterned after Shakespeare's dirty jokes - many of which were clever enough that children or the pious viewers wouldn't catch them, but that anyone willing to hear a little dirty joke would catch them.
• The works of Shakespeare are timeless classics. Whoever wrote them, they wrote something that was good enough to last HUNDREDS OF YEARS.

I don't care who wrote the works of Shakespeare. Because, in the end, THEY GOT WRITTEN. And that's the most important thing.