Roland Emmerich: 10 Reasons Why Shakespeare Is a Fraud

Roland Emmerich, director of ANONYMOUS (which opens October 28), offers his top ten reasons why the official Shakespeare story doesn't add up:

1. not a single document--play, poem, letter--has been found in his hand
2. both of his daughters were illiterate
3. he wrote from the aristocratic perspective, and obsessively about the royal court, yet he was lower class
4. six 'shaky' signatures are all we have in his hand--he apparently had difficulty signing his own name
5. not a single play or poem reflects his life
6. no record proves he attended (even) grammar school
7. retired in his 40s to Stratford, and wrote nothing there
8. never traveled outside England, but wrote with great knowledge of foreign lands
9. the original statue of him at his graveside in Stratford shows him holding a sack of grain
10. his last will and testament mentions no literary works

Video: Roland Emmerich examines the arguments against Shakspere