It is an uncontested fact that both of Shakespeare's parents were illiterate, and that he left behind one daughter who was illiterate, and one who was functionally illiterate. There is no physical evidence that Shakespeare could write any more than his name, and you can google search his poorly formed signatures to verify this for yourself. There are no letters from Shakespeare to anybody, and no evidence of any personal connection with the publishers of his plays. Even the spelling of his name Shakspeare varies from that of the writer of the works.
Imagine if you lived in this era when approximately 80% of the population were illiterate, your parents are illiterate, your children are functionally illiterate, what are the chances that you are the greatest writer in the English language, yet would not even teach your own children to read or ensure they had an education?
Yet this is what Wells and other Shakespeare scholars expect you to believe. So, who are you going to believe, a scholar whose mortgage was paid by Shakespeare, and whose identity is based on the Shakespeare writer persona, or your own lying eyes? Recently, Wells made the false claim in a video that Shakespeare transferred to the Stratford Grammar school to complete his education, without qualifying his statement in any way. To verify literacy google "Diana Price literacy."
In order to make Shakspeare of Stratford fit the Procrustian bed they have made for him, they claim the works could have been written by someone who only had a grammar school education, thus diminishing the works of the man to fit the myth they have been forced to negotiate.
Wells and other scholars do not like when you exercise independent or critical inquiry into this subject. He wants you to rely on his authority. However, be advised, you do so at your own peril. There is a question of 'Shakespeare's authorship.' It's not going away.
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