Oxfraud @oxfraud.com · Nov 22 No one had any doubts about Will's at the time. Basse's Elegy: 8 contemporary copies give his death April 1616; 13 call him "Mr."; one says "On Willm Shakespear bury'd att Stratford vpon Avon, his Town of Nativity", another identifies him as the poet who has a monument in the Stratford church.
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Unless the person writing it can be shown to have known WS or any of the other writers being praised it doesn't proove he was the writer, only that the pseudonym was working.
No reasonable person would argue against the existence of William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford upon Avon.