We're having vicious weather out here, I'm now addicted
to NOAA.  Do you know anything about an ejection from
the Sun that's supposed to have a dire effect on the
weather on Earth?

As far as the hocus pocus that surrounds Bacon is concerned,
it's not Bacon's fault that he was a singular genius (the Bacon's
took great care to educate their ward) but then the literacy
rate in the English of that era was probably impossible
to calculate.

Hence Bacon's interest in the theatre to educate the
public.

I have never been able to detect any evidence that
Oxford had some impulse to raise the English out
of illiteracy.

Oxford was shifted off to school where he could
only express his rage by throwing stones through the
irreplaceable glass windows at Cambridge (glass windows
whose glorious colors were made by monks from
secret formulas).  

Oxford was furious from birth forward (this was entirely
justified considering the circumstances of his conception,
he really never thrived, he was small all his life).

Bacon had a early advantage in that an old Roman theatre
was just yards away from the ruined chimneys of Old
Gorhambury.  Bacon and his brother Anthony would
scribble juvenile plays, then go down to the Roman
theatre to act them out.  I don't doubt that Bacon added
the Roman plays to the First Folio due to his childhood
experiments with the theatre.