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"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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"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."

"Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth."

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"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."

"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."

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"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."
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