Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Baconian theory -- Bibliography

Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy

In July, 1882, the compiler of this work issued a small privately-printed _Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Literature_, including all the titles then ascertained--63 in number. Since that time, additional titles and interesting material have so accumulated that he has th...

Chapters

1. Part 1

In July, 1882, the compiler of this work issued a small privately-printed _Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare Literature_, including all the titles then ascertained--63 in nu...

2. Part 2

“This is, after all [says Mr. Townsend], as good a summary as can be given of the wretched arguments upon which Mr. William Henry Smith bases his new, preposterous and altogethe...

3. Part 3

“She [Miss Bacon] had no notion of going to England to teach history; all she wanted to go for was to obtain proof of the truth of her theory, that Shakespeare did not write the...

4. Part 4

With this number, the _Herald_ supposed the discussion in its columns closed (though, as it will be seen, there was one more article), and gave an editorial summary of its concl...

5. Part 5

“Mr. Nathaniel Holmes is an American gentleman, residing in St. Louis, a long way from the manuscript papers, which can alone throw any new light upon the subject. He has master...

6. Part 6

Sir PATRICK COLQUHOUN’S paper was read before the Royal Society of Literature, London, May 21, 1879. It has never been printed. He holds Shakespeare “to have been a mere theatri...

7. Part 7

“It is startlingly singular that directly Shakespeare is brought down to the human plane, and considered there, whether as a supreme poet, or a supreme metaphysician (both of wh...

8. Part 8

The Editor, Gen. T. S. ALLEN, calls attention to a lecture by the late Hon. GEORGE B. SMITH, of Madison, Wisconsin, delivered at Chicago, Madison, and other places a few years s...

9. Part 9

“And yet it must be confessed that to many readers, whose reason cannot penetrate the mere mask of words and discern behind it the mystery of style, the soul that fills the form...

10. Part 10

The writer professes his belief that the author was Francis Bacon, and advances a claim of parallel thoughts, etc., between the plays and the _Advancement of Learning_ in suppor...

11. Part 11

Pg 30: ‘Chistian Observer’ replaced by ‘Christian Observer’. Pg 44: ‘methaphysicians, etc.’ replaced by ‘metaphysicians, etc.’. Pg 45: ‘a Milliion of’ replaced by ‘a Million of’...