Once upon a time there was a super genius named Shakespeare. Like just about everyone else in history, he had a brilliant output early on and then retired to a quiet life. His writing was so brilliant that people have been pissed off at him ever since. Clearly a lowly actor could never have written something so sublime. The idea that Shakespeare didn’t write any of the stuff which bares his name has a certain appeal to it. Records from the Elizabethan era are not as plentiful as you might think. Somewhere over the past 500 years or so, all…