Shakespeare Not Bacon: Some Arguments From Shakespeare's Copy of Florio's Montaigne in the British Museum (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Francis P. Gervais

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265780934 ISBN 13: 9780265780930

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

View all copies of this ISBN edition

0 Used

2 New

From US$ 31.09

Excerpt from Shakespeare Not Bacon: Some Arguments From Shakespeare's Copy of Florio's Montaigne in the British Museum

If Shakespeare's reputation was dear to these two fellow-actors, to whose reverence for the dead we are indebted for seventeen plays which probably would not otherwise have been preserved to us, so surely ought it to be to anyone who has experienced that delight in his works of which they speak above. That reputation has been assailed by a body of men and women who persistently assert that Bacon was the author of the plays. Their enthusiasm and energy have produced a whole literature: indeed there are now between sixty or seventy items under the heading Bacon Controversy in the Catalogue of the British Museum.

Their main argument runs somewhat on these lines - The plays show wide learning. William Shakespeare the actor, with his education and opportunities, could never have acquired that learning. We find it in Bacon's works. There fore Bacon was the author.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.