Produced by Eric Eldred, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPERE UNFOLDED. BY DELIA BACON. WITH A PREFACE BY NATHANIAL HAWTHORNE AUTHOR OF 'THE SCARLET LETTER,' ETC Aphorisms representing A KNOWLEDGE _broken_ do invite men to inquire further LORD BACON You find not the apostophes, and so miss the accent. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Untie the spell.--PROSPERO LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS PATERNOSTER ROW. 1857 AMES PRESS NEW YORK HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY DEC 6, 1972 Reprinted from a copy in the collection of the Harvard College Library Reprinted from the edition of 1857, London First AMS EDITION published 1970 Manufactured in the United States of America International Standard Book Number: 0-404-00443-1 Library of Congress Card Catalog Number: 73-113547 AMS PRESS, INC. NEW YORK, N.Y. 10003 TABLE OF CONTENTS. PREFACE INTRODUCTION. I. The Proposition II. The Age of Elizabeth, and the Elizabethan Men of Letters III. Extracts from the Life of Raleigh.--Raleigh's School IV. Raleigh's School, continued.--The New Academy * * * * * BOOK I [The HISTORICAL KEY to the ELIZABETHAN ART of TRADITION, which formed the FIRST BOOK of this Work as it was originally prepared for the Press, is reserved for separate publication.] THE ELIZABETHAN ART OF DELIVERY AND TRADITION. PART I. MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE'S 'PRIVATE AND RETIRED ARTS.' I. Ascent from Particulars to the 'Highest Parts of Sciences,' by the Enigmatic Method illustrated II. Further Illustration of 'Particular Methods of Tradition.'--Embarrassments of Literary Statesmen III. The Possibility of great anonymous Works,--or Works published under an _assumed name_,--conveying under rhetorical Disguises the Principal Sciences,--re-suggested and illustrated PART II. THE BACONIAN RHETORIC, OR THE METHOD OF PROGRESSION. I. THE 'BEGINNERS.'--['Particular Methods of Tradition.'-- The Double Method of 'Illustration' and 'Concealment'] II. INDEX to the 'Illustrated' and 'Concealed Tradition' of the Principal and Supreme Sciences.--THE SCIENCE OF POLICY III. THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY. Section I. The Exemplar of Good IV. THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY. Section II. The Husbandry thereunto, or the Cure and Culture of the Mind.--APPLICATION V. THE SCIENCE OF MORALITY.--ALTERATION VI. Method of Convoying the Wisdom of the Moderns * * * * * BOOK II. ELIZABETHAN 'SECRETS OF MORALITY AND POLICY'; OR, THE FABLES OF THE NEW LEARNING. INTRODUCTORY. I. The Design II. The Missing Books of the Great Instauration or 'Philosophy itself' PART I. LEAR'S PHILOSOPHER;