Yes, I’ve heard the claim made that a man with ‘small Latin and smaller Greek’ (or however that went) could not have written Shakespeare’s plays; having read them, I don’t find the claim at all compelling, but my assumption is that by this point in the controversy, someone has compiled a representative selection of authors and estimated their education which would allow a direct empirical estimate of what the true correlation is.
Yes, I’ve heard the claim made that a man with ‘small Latin and smaller Greek’ (or however that went) could not have written Shakespeare’s plays; having read them, I don’t find the claim at all compelling, but my assumption is that by this point in the controversy, someone has compiled a representative selection of authors and estimated their education which would allow a direct empirical estimate of what the true correlation is.