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Shakespeare has been justly praised and admired for his extraordinary dramatic genius and for its unusual breadth of subject. "Unique!" we exclaim. And on the few occasions when he allowed a little philosophy to creep in and interrupt the story we begin to wonder whether Francis Bacon did write the plays.

How did the same man come to create so brilliant a play as The Merchant of Venice and then stuff it with such narrow, rabid, and unkindly prejudice? How could he fall into the common superstition which, for over a thousand years, led to widespread intolerance and persecution?

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 89