He says that I had represented him as stating that the Unknown genius adopted the name of William Shake-speare or Shakespeare “as a good _nom de guerre_, without any reference to the fact that there was an actor in existence of the name of William Shakspere, whose name was sometimes written Shakespeare, and without the least idea that the works he published under this pseudonym would be fathered upon the actor . . . ” (My meaning has obviously been too obscurely stated by me.) Mr. Greenwood next writes that the confusion between the actor, and the unknown taking the name William Shakespeare, “did happen and was intended to happen.” _C’est là le miracle_! How could it happen if the actor were the bookless, ignorant man whom Mr. Greenwood describes? It could not happen: Will must have been unmasked in a day. The fact that a strange plot existed was only too obvious. The Unknown’s secret must have been tracked by the hounds of keenest nose in the packs of rival and jealous authors and of actors. None gives tongue. {27a} _Francis Bacon Wrote Shakespeare_, p. 37. {30a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 333. {31a} In the passage which I quoted, with notes of omission, from Mr. Greenwood (p. 333), he went on to say that the eulogies of the poet by “some cultured critics of that day,” “afford no proof that the author who published under the name of Shakespeare was in reality Shakspere the Stratford player.” That position I later contest. {31b} See chap. XI, _The First Folio_. {33a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 305, 306. {34a} Furness, _Merchant of Venice_, pp. 271, 272. {34b} On this see Mr. Pollard’s _Shakespeare Folios and Quartos_, pp. 1–9. {37a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 202, 348, 349. {38a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 349. {44a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 356. {45a} _In Re Shakespeare_, p. 88, note I. {48a} _Studies in Shakespeare_, p. 15; _Life of Shakespeare_, by Malone, pp. 561–2, 564; Appendix, XI, xvi. {50a} C. I. Elton, _William Shakespeare_, _His Family and Friends_, pp. 97, 98. {51a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 44. {52a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 39. {52b} _Vindicators of Shakespeare_, p. 210. {53a} _Vindicators of Shakespeare_, p. 187. {53b} _Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 223. {55a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 69. {56a} See chapter X, _The Traditional Shakespeare_. {56b} See C. I. Elton, _William Shakespeare_, _His Family and Friends_, pp. 48, 343–8. {57a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 207–9. {59a} Chapter X, _infra._ {62a} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, p. 96. {62b} See chapter X, _The Traditional Shakespeare_. {62c} _The Shakespeare Problem Restated_, pp. 94–96. {64a} _Shakespeare_, pp. 38–40. {65a} Raleigh, _Shakespeare_, pp. 77, 78.