“Who wrote Shakespeare?”
Does it really matter? Would it lessen the literary value of Hamlet if it were written by the Earl of Oxford?
This stuff comes from “deconstructionist” academics who are on a never-ending mission to unmask big daddy.
It’s all George Bush’s fault.
Joe Sobran is a big time De Vere backer. He even wrote a book on the subject. Whatever he might be, Sobran is neither a deconstructionist nor an academic.
It mattered to those who attacked and critiqued him. Thus the surest way to to have secured the knowledge for posterity that Shakespeare is who he’s claimed to be.
And Ben Jonson knew who he was too.