What do the events following Kennedy’s assassination, 9/11, Princess Diana’s death, and the moon landing tell us about contemporary culture? The simple answer: that we live in a world of conspiracy thinking. Surrounding each and every one of these events is a slew of alternative explanations, paranoid speculations, and extremely heated emotions. But, perhaps one of the most interesting conspiracies—and certainly one of the more long-standing—is the centuries-old conviction that someone else wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.
