The Slipper

FOLLOWING the recent presentation in The A.A. Grapevine of Dr. Samuel Johnson as an alcoholic, research into the plays of Shakespeare has given reasonable grounds for putting forward the suggestion that he too had his problem. That is, of course, if we adopt the school of thought that Shakespeare, not Bacon, was Shakespeare; and that Bacon, not Shakespeare, was in fact Bacon. The Bard would appear to have had too much intimate information about the alcoholic's trend of thought not to have had some personal experience. The extracts following require no running commentary to explain them, but for easy reference a short heading has been given to each.