William Shakespeare: His multiple personality has been so great an issue that people have seriously debated the true identity of the author of his plays (1)

[People have argued that he couldn't have known or done, this or that, so he must have been someone else, but a variety of alternate personalities could have learned, imagined, and done a variety of surprising things, without telling anyone, except through his works.]

This month I may read one of his early plays, The Comedy of Errors, whose comedy involves mistaken identities and identical twins, which is a common metaphor for multiple personality, since all of a person’s alternate personalities have the same body and therefore look like identical twins.

1. Wikipedia. “Shakespeare authorship question.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_authorship_question