But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

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

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.