Bacon Is Shake Speare Together With A Reprint Of Bacon S Promus
Chapter 9
The Author revealed in the Sonnets.
Bacon also reveals much of himself in the play "As you like it," which of course means "Wisdom from the mouth of a fool." In that play, besides giving us much valuable information concerning his "mask" William Shakespeare, he also tells us why it was necessary for him to write under a pseudonym.
Speaking in the character of Jaques, who is the alter ego of Touchstone, he says,