These seven plays were written by the same man, and many believe they were written under a pen-name. One leading European nation is conspicuous by its absence in this catalogue of masterpieces. The hero, everyone agrees, is not a typical Spaniard, but the setting is Spain, and with this masterpiece Spain is placed firmly on the literary map of Europe. Before rejecting the possibility that Bacon wrote both Quixote and the Shakespeare plays, I would ask you to take one very important fact into consideration. Shakespeare and Cervantes were contemporaries.
Geniuses are very rare birds.
Only a handful have appeared in the whole history of the human race. When two appear at the the same time, we should pay special attention, because this happens so very rarely. Or in the early 16th Century, when Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were painting in Florence. In the early 17th Century we could meet Shakespeare and Cervantes. But they never met.