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>Why is his epitaph significant evidence for you?

The epitaph is very interesting as it is the one piece of writing that all Stratfordians and non-Stradfordians agree William wrote.
The orthodox claim is that the author of Hamlet and King Lear wrote cheap doggerel for his own grave. That is so obviously incredible and bizarre that it doesn’t require further comment.

> There is no indication in the plays that the author knew Greek.

Comprehensive overview of this (belief in Earl of Oxford as the author not required):
https://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/rediscovery-shakespeares-greater-greek/

>The plays do not show someone intimately familiar with law

500+ Dictionary of Shakespeare's legal language:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shakespeares-legal-language-9780826477781/

This facility with the law was first noticed by Malone in the 18th century and is part of the reason why many trained lawyers such as Sir George Greenwood and Justice John Paul Steevens have doubted William is the author.

>or particularly well educated.

Standard source reference for Shakespeare, eight massive volumes:
https://rarebooksfinder.com/rarebooks/narrative-dramatic-sources-of-shakespeare-8-volume-set/

>Robert Green was a jealous high born man who resented the upstart Shakespeare’s success, and also lampooned other writers.

If this is reference to Groatsworth of Wit, the text is clear. Shakespeare is a social climber and uses old plays from North. It also gives a biography of North and why he is selling. Jonson in Poet Ape and Ode to Himself and in his plays says the same that Shakespeare was a user of old plays

>Jonson and Shakespeare were extremely good friends. Read his poem in memory of Shakespeare which you ignore because the entire poem is about him being brilliant and one of the greatest writers of the English canon.

By this logic all the commendatory prefaces to aristocrats in renaissance books requires us to believe that the aristocratic patrons of the time were all beautiful geniuses.
Jonson is a writing a eulogy for the First Folio, a business project by two former colleagues and business partners of William. What are you expecting to hear?