I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
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.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on.
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.
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.
If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
