Satirist Max Beerbohm published a cartoon entitled "William Shakespeare, his method of work", in his 1904 collection "The Poet's Corner". Beerbohm depicts Shakespeare receiving the manuscript of "Hamlet" from Bacon. In Beerbohm's comic essay "On Shakespeare's Birthday" he declares himself to be unconvinced by Baconian theory, but wishes it were true because of the mischief it would cause – and because having one hero who was both an intellectual "and" a creative genius would be more exciting than two separate ones.