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Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies — John Shaqi

Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and EleganciesDurning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

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Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

Name: Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
Author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir

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

Page 55.  Heading to CHAPTER VII.
            James I. "Essayes of a Prentise in the Art of Poesie."
              1584, 1585.
            De Loque's "Single Combat." 1591.
            "Taming of a Shrew." 1594
            Hartwell's "Warres." 1595.
            Heywood's Works. 1598.
            Hayward's "Of the Union." 1604.

Page 55 _(continued)_.
            Cervantes'  "Don Quixote." 1612.
            Peacham's "Compleat Gentleman." 1622.

Page 69.  Heading of CHAPTER VIII.
            "Richard II." 1597.
            "Richard III." 1597.
            "Henrie IV." 1600.
            "Hamlet." 1603.
            Shakespeare's "Sonnets."  1609.
            Matheieu's "Henry IV." [of France.] 1612.

Page 74.  Heading of CHAPTER IX.
            Hardy's "Le Theatre." 1624.

Page 84.  Heading of CHAPTER X.
            Boys' "Exposition of the last Psalme." 1615.

Page 103. Heading of CHAPTER XI.
            Bacon's "Henry VII." 1629.
            Bacon's "New Atlantis." 1631.

Page 113. Printed upside down.
            Camden's "Remains." 1616.

Page 134. Heading of CHAPTER XII.
            Preston's "Life Eternall." 1634.

Page 144. Heading of CHAPTER XIII.
            Barclay's "Argenis." 1636.

Page 161. Heading of CHAPTER XIV.
            Martyn's "Lives of the Kings." 1615.
            Seneca's Works. 1620.
            Slatyer's "Great Britaine." 1621.
            Bacon's "Resuscitatio," Part II. 1671.

Page 177. Heading of CHAPTER XV.
            Gustavi Seleni "Cryptomenytices." 1624.

Page 187. Introduction to "Promus."
            "King John." 1591.
            Florio's "Second Frutes." 1591.
            De Loque's "Single Combat." 1591
            Montaigne's "Essais." 1602.
            Cervantes'  "Don Quixote," translated by Shelton. 1612-20.

Page 287. Tail Piece from Spenser's "Faerie Queen." 1617.


[Illustration: Plate II Portrait of Francis Bacon,
By Van Somer.
Engraved by W.C. Edwards]




BACON IS SHAKESPEARE.



CHAPTER I.


"What does it matter whether the immortal works were written by
Shakespeare (of Stratford) or by another man who bore (or assumed) the
same name?"

Some twenty years ago, when this question was first propounded, it was
deemed an excellent joke, and I find that there still are a great number
of persons who seem unable to perceive that the question is one of
considerable importance.

When the Shakespeare revival came, some eighty or ninety years ago,
people said "pretty well for Shakespeare" and the "learned" men of that
period were rather ashamed that Shakespeare should be deemed to be
"_the_" English poet.

        "Three poets in three distant ages born,
         Greece, Italy and England did adorn,
         .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
         The force of Nature could no further go,
         To make a third she joined the other two."

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Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

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