TT: Shakespeare denial

I’m one of many people who’s read and been impressed by James Shapiro’s Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal “Sightings” column I talk about the book, and the phenomenon that inspired it. I was inspired in turn by something that struck me while reading Contested Will, though Shapiro himself didn’t get around to mentioning it: Shakespeare is, so far as I know, the only major artist since Homer whose authorship of the works for which he is remembered has been systematically questioned. Why? Why the Bard and not, say, Bach?
If that question piques your curiosity, pick up a copy of Saturday’s Journal and see what I have to say.
UPDATE: Read the whole thing here.