Bacon and Shakespeare

wrote Shakespeare. This was English, the purest and the sweetest that tongue ever uttered, and Bacon was dressing his thoughts in Latin that they might outlive the language whic...

Even at the risk of wearying my readers, it is necessary for the purposes of this book, to make a critical inspection of one of the “interiour” plays which Dr. Owen has decipher...

Bacon’s biographers have strained every effort in explaining and excusing his action in the ensuing trials. Not only have they failed to exculpate him, but themselves must reali...

If we are to accept the Baconian opinion of Shakespeare it is difficult to understand how Bacon came to allow him to make a successful application on behalf of his father, John...

The argument of the Baconians--the term is uniformly employed here to mean the supporters of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare--is based on the honest belief...

Neither of the theories we have just reviewed need be taken seriously. We know that Bacon himself gave an account of the scheme of the _Magna Instauratio_ in a section of the _N...

“All that learne that I, who accompte th’ truth better than wicked vanitie, publish’d manie late playes under other cognomen will think the motive some distaste of the stage. In...

_To anticipate for this little book that it may prove the means of convincing a single Baconian of the error of his ways, would be to express a hope that has only the faintest c...

Mr. Theobald is scarcely complimentary to Shakespeare’s champions in this controversy, but his language is positively libellous when he refers to Shakespeare himself. His person...

In this 1628 folio of the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Mrs. Gallup has deciphered some ninety pages of a partial translation of Homer’s _Iliad_. But on comparing this translation wi...