Samuel Schuman:Surely it is more important to celebrate Nabokov's admiration for the works of Shakespeare, and the many many ways in which those works are magically transmuted into VN's novels than to rehash the anti-Stratfordian theories and/or the extent to which the mature Nabokov subscribed to them...

 

Jansy Mello: I share Samuel Schuman's views about the importance of "celebrating" VN's "magical transmutations" of WS's works, although I think it's also fascinating to learn about VN's various views and his ploys concerning the authorship problem. 

I'd like to bring up again the joke I found in the Wikipedia a few years ago: 

"Other scholars still support the idea that Homer was a real person. Since nothing is known about the life of this Homer, the common joke—also recycled with regard to Shakespeare—has it that the poems "were not written by Homer, but by another man of the same name.."