BACON AND SHAKE-SPEARE

PARALLELISMS

FRANCIS BACON OUR SHAKE-SPEARE

CONTENTS

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

Chapter

I.

Coincidences

II.

The Early Authorship of Shake-speare

III.

The Late Authorship of Shake-speare

IV. The Place of the Shake-speare Dramas in Bacon's System of

Philosophy

V.

Chapter

The Classical Element in the Plays

I. Latin Language

II.

Greek and Latin Literature

III. Greek and Latin Mythology

VI. Jonson's Masque, Time Vindicated '

VII. Bacon's Poetic Gifts

VIII.

Origin of the Pseudonym Shake-speare

Appendices

Index

BACON VS. SHAKSPERE

Brief for Plaintiff

Eighth Edition, Illustrated, Revised, and Enlarged

CONTENTS

Introductory

Preface to Second Edition

Preface to Fourth Edition

List of Books for Consultation

I. The Attainments of the Au-
thor of the Plays

II. William Shakspere of Stratford-

upon-Avon

III. Francis Bacon

IV. Ben Jonson

V. Objections Considered

Chapter

VI. Common Studies

VII. Disillusion, a Gain
VIII. Biography of Shakspere
IX. The Birthplace at Stratford
X. Anne Hathaway's Cottage
XI. New Place

XII. The Mulberry Tree

XIII. The Death-Mask

XIV. Summary

Index

Bacon and Shake-speare

Parallelisms

By

Edwin Reed, A.M.

Author of Bacon vs. Shakspere, Brief for Plaintiff'

and Francis Bacon, Our Shake-speare'

BOSTON

CHARLES E. GOODSPEED

1902

To my

Beloved Granddaughter

Dorothy Work Wadhams

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"Little babe, thou cam'st into the world weeping whilst all about thee smiled; So live that thou mag'st depart in smiles whilst all about thee weep "