The debate on who wrote the Shakespeare plays has erupted at London’s Globe Theatre, where all theories are getting an airing. “For a long time, over on this side of the Atlantic at all events, to doubt that William, the man of Stratford, wrote the plays, was for a person who hoped to have a literary career in the university a very dangerous view to entertain,” he said. “It was not popular, to put it very bluntly. Very unpopular. It was felt to sort of suggest you were, to use a word, ‘unsound.’ We merely say that in the present state of knowledge, we certainly don’t think that the Stratfordians have made out their case, but we equally don’t believe that the Oxfordians have either.”