Who was Shakespeare?

Shakespeare is the father of just about everything written today. His writing style, ideas, character development, etc was extremely advanced for the time period in which he lived. He was extremely brilliant for his time and his name had become synonymous with the word play. His intellectual abilities puzzle most due to the fact that he wasn't a nobleman or belonged to royalty. He was just a normal man, a plebeian if you will. This allows many people to believe that he was not the author of many of his plays. These people are what we like to call "idiots" or "haters" (for the young-folk.) There is no valid argument presented by the opposing side that even remotely revelas another author as the actual "author."