It’s also more than a decade old. This latest thing is basically just the study author using some your-friend-who-likes-phish level literary analysis to bolster a failed study that was roundly rejected the last 10 times he pulled this.
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ah, my mistake!
Ya, that was his defense…
Constable, the pipes in questioneth wast toss’d o’er mine garden wall by some nefarious pass’rby.
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The “controversy” is known as ‘anti-stratfordianism’ and it’s hogwash (no bacon pun intend’d). The Pyramus and Thisbe reference in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ gives it away (it refers to the inspiration of the plot of Romeo and Juliet).
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According to Wikipedia:
It is not known exactly when Shakespeare began writing, but contemporary allusions and records of performances show that several of his plays were on the London stage by 1592
If, say, Shakespeare started writing plays in 1584, then 50% of his playwriting would be in the 17th century, and thus would date to the same time period.
Of course, saying “it dates to the seventeenth century” without giving us an actual year and error bars doesn’t tell us much. It could mean “dates to 1750, plus or minus twenty years, with 95% accuracy,” in which case, it’s probably not Shakespeare’s, or it could mean, “dates to 1725, plus or minus thirty years, with 95% accuracy,” which could easily put it in Shakespeare’s lifetime.
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