A critical and exegetical commentary on the book of Daniel

For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probable that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books. Daniel Wright, a professor at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon, and an active anti-Stratfordian, wrote in HarperБЂ™s Magazine that Shakespeare was БЂњa simple, untutored wool and grain merchantБЂ«and БЂњa rather ordinary man who had no connection to the literary world.БЂ«Such statements can only be characterized as wildly imaginative. Similarly, in the normally unimpeachable History Today, William D. Rubinstein, a professor at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth, stated in the opening paragraph of his anti-Shakespeare survey: БЂњOf the seventy-five known contemporary documents in which Shakespeare is named, not one concerns his career as an author.БЂ«That is not even close to being so. In the Master of the RevelsБЂ™ accounts for 1604-1605-that is, the record of plays performed before the king, about as official a record as a record can be-Shakespeare is named seven times as the author of plays performed before James I ...»