javoršek regarded himself as being primarily a theater manager and not an intellectual or a writer. as such, he often claimed he had the license of a court jester and loved drawing parallels between himself and the famous playwrights in history who were also theatre managers, such as shakespeare, molière or carlo goldoni. he probably best explained the way in which he saw his own role in the essay "shakespeare and politics", which was written in 1965 for a volume entitled "shakespeare among the slovenes", edited by the famous literary critic france koblar and published by the "slovenska matica" publishing house. in the essay, he made the following assessment of shakespeare: