Yes, but this isn't what the post is about.

Here it's about knowing who Shakespeare is, and actually even worse, knowing how he looked.

There's no mention of Hamlet or Macbeth, there's no mention of art in any kind, to the point where the artist is being compared to a character (ultimately, art).

People don't give a crap about the art of Shakespeare, they just have to know him because he's famous and supposedly a genius or whatever, so you need to know his name and his face. There's no art in that, and no education either because knowing the name and face of a dead guy never brought any form of knowledge.

Shakespeare isn't an artist. He is an icon, a holy figure, an absolute reference that became close to a deity in people's perception, similar Mozart, Einstein, etc. Heck, how many people know Einstein and his face, compared to how many know his works?

This is where fascism hides. If you can consider anyone to be godlike without even knowing what they did, it's easy for you to do the same with a Hitler or a Trump. You believe blindly because it is a cult of personality.