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

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.

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.

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

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

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

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