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It is nothing short of astounding that nowhere throughout the fifty-eight essays does Bacon either quote a thought from the drama, or mention a single dramatist! His silence is all the more extraordinary when considering the fact that he himself was involved in the representation of six masques, the first as a Gray’s Inn man of twenty-five and the last so late in life as his Attorney-Generalship, when he was fifty-two years old.