I found Last Will interesting and informative, but it didn't convince me that Shakespeare was a false front for any of the candidates discussed, such as the Earl of Oxford. While this documentary does lean heavily toward the Oxford view, it also presents counter-arguments -- e.g., the Oxfordians go out of their way to create Oxfordian interpretations of the works, then use those interpretations as "proof" that Oxford must be the author.
The manner in which "evidence" can be made to mean whatever you're predisposed to have it mean is summed up in an entertaining minute or two excerpted from a mock trial presided over by three US Supreme Court justices in the 1980s. To make the point that Oxford wasn't trying to maintain a respectable image and thus didn't need to invent, or use, "Shakespeare" as his shield, the anti-Oxford attorney lists all the debauchery openly engaged in by Oxford. Then, one of the Justices smilingly retorts, "He sounds like a playwright!"
The manner in which "evidence" can be made to mean whatever you're predisposed to have it mean is summed up in an entertaining minute or two excerpted from a mock trial presided over by three US Supreme Court justices in the 1980s. To make the point that Oxford wasn't trying to maintain a respectable image and thus didn't need to invent, or use, "Shakespeare" as his shield, the anti-Oxford attorney lists all the debauchery openly engaged in by Oxford. Then, one of the Justices smilingly retorts, "He sounds like a playwright!"