YES! I thought at first, OMG, this will get interesting, and then I realised that the internet literati wank I have feared ever since I heard that stupid film was coming had finally descended. Le sigh.

I felt incredibly tempted to argue with her (and it doesn't take much; De Vere's fricking birth/death dates don't even match the times when some of Shakespeare's plays were written; HOW ARE SO MANY SUPPOSEDLY SENSIBLE PEOPLE MISSING THIS HUGELY IMPORTANT FACT?) but I knew that way lies madness, so I just directed her to James Shapiro's "Contested Will" and went away to take deep breaths.