On an airline flight yesterday I was watching a 2014 Mark Wahlberg film called The Gambler. I had not heard of it before. Apparently it didn’t do too well at the box office last year, due to its depressing and nihilistic tone.
Regardless, there was a great speech near the beginning of the movie by Wahlberg, who plays an existentially-troubled English teacher. In the speech to his class, he offers a few words on the whole “Shakespeare controversy”: that is, were Shakespeare’s plays written by him, or by someone else?
You may know that there is an industry built up around the denial that Shakespeare wrote his places. These deniers claim it must have been some aristocrat or some professor who wrote the plays attributed to him.
Quintus Curtius 
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