But as the article alludes, questions of authorship are dismissed by overwhelming consensus. It is also a question for which the sort of conclusive evidence tha

But as the article alludes, questions of authorship are dismissed by overwhelming consensus. It is also a question for which the sort of conclusive evidence that’s desired just doesn’t exist. In some sense, it’s analogous to climate change denialist articles. So, it’s nice to learn more about Emilia Bassano. But it’s a problematic article, and, especially, your defense of it seems problematic. It almost detracts from her work to try to fit her into the Shakespeare authorship pigeonhole, and it’s also the case that there’s far less evidence for this competing hypothesis than the one favored by Occam’s Razor, that Shakespeare was simply Shakespeare, and astonishing as he was and the unresolved questions we have, we should just accept it.