SONY CONFIDENT ABOUT FAKE SHAKESPEARE, YET SHIFTS ANONYMOUS TO PLATFORM RELEASE

It means that they finally realized that this film is going to make about six dollars in the U.S. and that they're covering their losses a little.  

THE PATRIOT proves he can make a period film. Not a good period film, but a period film.

If only Jason Issacs was in this thing...

The whole "who actually wrote Shakespeare's plays" non-issue might just be the most boring topic that history buffs dredge up once a decade to keep themselves relevant.  Add to that a director completely ill-suited for the job and you've got a recipe for snooze.

I'll admit its not the most glorious of historical topics but I've always been intrigued by the whole "authorship controversy". As someone whose read a few books on this issue I'm of the belief that the Shakespere skeptics and Edward DeVere advocates, have made a solid case. 

So yes, I am very much looking forward to watching this to see how they've handled it.  

Yeah, I get to go to the shite corporate "indie" theater with terrible seats and poor sound to see this instead of a nicer theater.  Whoo hoo!

I've never found this particular mystery the least bit interesting. Who cares? It's not like any of the potential authors are more than just names to us at this point anyway. Centuries removed from the writing of these works, the important fact is that they were written, not so much which anonymous playwright wrote them

If all of those brilliant plays were written by the same person then we want to acknowledge that person for his or her great accomplishment.  Why?  Because it's another testament to humanity's great potential.

A great accomplishment by itself is fine.  Take the E=MC[squared] equation.  If it had been arrived at piecemeal by a larger number of scientific minds it would be just as useful but we wouldn't have the cult of personality which has grown up around Einstein.  Knowing who that person was teaches us more about who we are and what we can be.

And people who achieve great things are eventually so studied or admired that they ascend into the realm of myth or legend.  Anyone who values mythology should be able to see why it's only natural that we remember, and honor, the people who made great contributions in the past.