Now for something interesting, but altogether different: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays?

Although the question sounds like one of my running classroom sayings, "What time does our 1:30 class start?", the issue of authorship of Shakespeare's plays comes into question by some. In a blistering critique of non-Shakespeare authorship is the piece by James Shapiro (below) who puts the question on the rubbish heap along with conspiracy theorists, DaVinci Codes, and other forms of truthieness.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/opinion/hollywood-dishonors-the-bard.html#

from the NY Times