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There's nothing Anonymous about William Shakespeare's genius by Jonathan Jones

Conspiracists ignore a crushing weight of documentary and in-text evidence that the Stratford master authored the playsIn 1593, an actor and theatre manager called William Shakespeare published his first book, a long narrative poem called Venus and Adonis. It is the verbal equivalent of a Titian painting, which recreates the world of mythology in richly human, erotic language. This love poem instantly became a Renais…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:57AM on October 27, 2011

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