And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

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