# The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence Author: Morgan, Appleton, 1845-1928 Genre: Category: British Literature Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47424 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Shakespearean+Myth%3A+William+Shakespeare+and+Circumstantial+Evidence+Morgan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary HE thirty-seven plays called, collectively, "Shakespeare," are a phenomenon, not only in English letters, but in human experience. The literature of the country to which they belong, had, up to the date of their appearance, failed to furnish, and has been utterly powerless since, to produce any type, likeness, or formative trace of them; while the literature of other nations possesses not even a corresponding type. The history of a century on either side of their era discloses, within the precints of their birth, no resources upon which levy could have been made for their creation. They came and went like a meteor; neither borrowing of what they found, nor loaning to what they left, their... ## Chapters - [PART I. THE MYSTERY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/1/index.md) - [PART III. THE JONSONIAN TESTIMONY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/13/index.md) - [scene ii). "Why two days? The time of the entire action of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/4/index.md) - [PART VI. THE NEW THEORY--THE SONNETS--CONCLUSION.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/10/index.md) - [PART IV. EXTRA SHAKESPEAREAN THEORIES: THE DELIA BACON THEORY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/6/index.md) - [Scene 9.=](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/8/index.md) - [PART V. THE BACONIAN THEORY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/7/index.md) - [PART II. THE APPEAL TO HISTORY.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/2/index.md) - [Scene 1, Arthur says to Hubert:](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/3/index.md) - [PART VI.--THE NEW THEORY, {290}A play called "Duke Humphrey," attributed](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part II., ch. vi., p. 32, note.)](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/9/index.md) - [chapter iv.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shakespearean-myth-william-shakespeare-and-circumstantial-e-a0098cd4/chapters/12/index.md)