Show BACON OK olt shakespeare I 1 4 pointel tsi all able OB on the th batoon S si de the announcement of ignot us D mu ti nellys ellys forthcoming work on the BACOU shakespeare con trove cil interest ia in axt b awakened wakened I 1 renewed renew I 1 I 1 subject the following ill I 1 a syn synopsis P bf A paper recently read before the bacon society of london by air mr frauds fraucis fearlo and presents in a co compact form the reasons why a I 1 great many intelligent students of shakespeare s plays sa scribe their authorship to lord bacon 1 I DID FRANCIS BACOY SHA JC it E T 7 the natural answer would be certainly not can the tradition of three centuries be lle wrong were our ancestors igno ignorant was shakespeare himself ani were lili his contemporaries and friend friends deceived t Z were lie his successors successor it of the next generation unable to detect the do D you vou mean to say ay that there ii ill tiny any serious doubt that wilt will Shake shakespeare peare the acknowledged acknowledge d author of the wonderfully wonder full plays that bear bh his name the swan ot avon as the divine bard hard for three centuries wrote the pleys plays 7 nil N no no air I 1 wont have it has I 1 always been shakespeare I 1 ra t to meau nn aud d on 0 o he ball hall remain and n loas as fur for francis aicon lord bacon having written shake speare i s prays I 1 why I 1 introduce that heavy still 1 philosophic person on the treue iceie what had be tie tu to do with the matter certainly certainty dow you mentioned it the two men nica lived at about the same period but two persons more differently in lu notions and ideal you rould could hardly have mentioned together had lord bacon written a it play it would have been a ponderous disquisition iu dialogue a giggal or emy emay in blank verse verae and as fur for hi bis written playe plays why good gracious sir I 1 what do you mean you are laboring under a serious mental delusion betake yourself to some quiet retreat and stay there until you have your mind of it and hare have returned once more morr to lox tile he orthodox belief that will shakespeare peare wrote the plays that I 1 have iamb ia Md by his name a belief which was good enough fur for our lathers fathers and our grandt athen and may well suffice for us u such I 1 take it i with little ex the sentiment with which 1 he e of pers persons tins first hear the idea propounded that the will biake pearel iiii hillry story did didiot not write the plays which have ei so long gone by hia his name and that francie francis a ba cun con did nevertheless I 1 will endeavor to do something to convince my ray read ers that there is at all events some methods in the magnesi of those who like myself are converts to the new and ep op reading belief what then is tills title ID to the ot of gourde course be claimed it to himself it strange aa as it may mav appear there it is no record of his having done band boand yet he seems to be a building buit ling man of the world by no mean diffident a moneymaking money making manager ot of a tb be atre cnut riot a likely to have bid bill hit his own ligat i ig f L under ader a bushel but one who w would rather have hare boasted and made the of bia hie literary attainment attainments one who in making as be he did a will entering 4 the details of hi his chattels and fl caf down to bis his old bedstead would not have been silent a as he w as as to bit bill and lit arary property which would had he rued any have been the source of bit his fortune surely be lie would have appointed a literary executor lec titor with directions as to the re vil ion and republication of his plays nine ine of tho thirty seven plays ally credited to shakespeare were n eyer hard of dutil the seventh year after his death and all of the thirty seven were in that year pub dished with c considers con sidera bl ara tuda tinas by ome mai terhand unknown the 1623 folio ha hie thirty six plays of course ei eight litkett lite ett ett were printed then for the erst time four more wire were eo so changed matured or developed as to be practically new therefore for the text of twenty two out of thirty eix six we are tire depe depend 1 ent on the folio of the remaining re g fou fourteen arteen only nine arc are not seriously y changed from the original quartos cuartos qu artos the eve are so altered abat although the original quartos ar re goo god d the altered editions la in the I 1 folio are alone but do net not the plays themselves thema elyes bear external evidence of bis big au thor ship T Is not his name upon them and was this inscription ever challenged ch al I 1 edged it seems to bo be hardly understood that seven of f shakespeare s plays tum and juliet richard 11 II bichard III first part of henry I 1 IV J ami still second and third parts 2 r ts of fuei henry ry vf were originally I 1 brought out without any authors name OB oki the tile title page that six editions dit ions of the poem venus and adonis daws and four of lucrece wern were t elj thus published several edi biond of the poems and of certain plays were published before 1616 of cheso editions twenty seven had no authors sti thors nahne on the title page and when the usque of did appear outside the printa edition and is not by any say means the fa fact tc that A what gets into p print rin t and is not challenged b 1 is agthe authe authentic tic it may be noted that the tile name outside the play is a final aleto e to each rl yli lable able and anti generally a hyphen Mi between the syllable a it mode fit of spelling which I 1 think I 1 am right in saying wa 4 1 not at recognize rec A by will wi hial himself self in the 5 L i pere biej f ace thither of 4 william villiam was a member the dame wae was sal in fourteen diffie different rent way time times with an x indicating thai that the net name m e 1 wa I 1 pronounced with the I 1 in a I 1 i in a th the e fi first rs st syllabi short the theory of the Bac orlistis ii is abac ahe name was www a dt de chime if or francis bacon who bail hall good reat reanus Ious bior lor wuA hinse that llie the pi should cut not be pub lelit ol under hii his name and still that when it was to iut put forward some authors one fitter or more popular than that of the and still popular theater manager could le fee al adopted opted tor for llie the burle that the name wa was laurl tely ady dia dis bj by that n elie the plays were ere ent sent in proba bly by the author to ill the manager of the Black friar Th theater enter who ad adapter altel them for the file shagir introducing per perhaps hape tome of the low law comedy business ikuo them and brought them nil our that Shak pere waa was the producer and not the composer ol 01 the play the reasons bacon and bia hi friends who were in the secret of the authorship had for wishing that during hit his lije life or immediately after his death he should not be recognized as the author were cogent the stage and drama drawn were at that timo time at the lowest ebb Play PJ ayer eril and play writers and the tile da ceals ol 01 w were ere r among beer Di serdo di weela vagabonds of edidin sedition ed itin and disorderly persons pere perso offa Cs clenry viti VIII and L lizbeth bad uttered proclamation proclamations against stage playe plays as tending to immor immorality lity its order in the state and depravity in religion bacon bacons mother wai was a strict puritan and her eona sons connection with the stage as a it writer would have been a great of fente to her beside besides uch such per personal fonal motives for re remaining mal i ollig i a cea led 11 poet B bi 1 con had bad no tin doubt a st nap live five in those days day when neither daily paper papers nor per existed the stage rea readiest readi libat eit weans 0 publishing on any subject bae n intended ind ended by hie his play plays to inculcate adv advanced arleed opinion opinions on many suba cis reforms reform li in law statecraft tate craft manner natural philosophy and religion the da dai a 8 were dangerous nley were liable e to be im tortured bain even for their opinion opinions and belief the theory ia therefore that bacon then adopted the method of the ancient which he himself expounds and end corn COM mends aad clothing himself Lini self in the humble weed ot of the poor play er be p poured aured out to ears many ot which hearing heard not the thought thoughts and aspiration aspirations of ochia his my riad mind but to return to the ial evidence hearing bear ingon on the tuble ct there are no ot of the it IL is 14 bail aid that the copie copies of their part parts were supplied up plied to e the actor actors by the manager spere in hie own hand riling and without a blot a fact which is to to my mind etron stron against bia au thor thip ship for a buy busy aul awl prolific compositor dea not if he lie aan cun help it write fair copies fir distribution and anti certainly not or a blot but ia n the character and carcel of theman hini himself gelf an indication that he was the author if we had hail ito knowledge or re cord of biro him it wo would u id be better for hie his reputed title to the authorship as it is i we know jual just enough ol 01 what manner of if man he WHO to find great difficulty in recognizing recognising the possibility of hi having euch such learned belgau el gata end anti varied I 1 masterpieces as those which bear a colorable c imitation of hi hie name tho the history of his hi life so fr a it ie is known ie is very shortly as its fullow born at stratford on avon in 1554 the ton 1011 of john butcher wool staple glover jia hi mother mary arden of peasant 1 family fau tily ne neither ither parent of if any reputed ability or learning sup sul posed to have been for a abort lime time at the Stitt ford school but there ill i bo no authentic eviden ct i of even thi this bhart period of there is alo also a tradition that be he became a country aud and legal entice critics despite of soy aradi lion tion are sure that bo ho was employed in a lawyers lawyer s office but no hint of ofte ha having become becott iq remark able jn in either capt cily and both giries seem to ba be realier an sit infer ence floru the legal and jtb other large knowledge and learo tug appa apparent reut in the plays than bad on any real record or tradition lie ile mar married rieAl at eighteen there are local traditions onn that he followed bie his fat fathers fathe herd rJ trade ai as a butcher and to make a fie fine speech bt belt corf re billing hilling a calf of hie his having been tit iii the habit of drinking at pot hoheb and nil club cl abs hunting comys fur for amuse ment and poaching iu III the he neighborhood bo until sir thorna thomaa lucy luey the resident squire afier after a more than estial aggravated case oi of poach ing by liim him prosecuted him the tile re suit being bring t E at la he soon oon after left stratford dand and went in 1587 to london there he is i reported to lave bare made he his living for a time by holding hort bornatt esat theater and then coming by degree to ile employed ai a aper buier arid walking or utility ell na ty gentleman II 11 now the commencement of the phenomena A few years after his bi arrival in london appeared the poem venus and still dedicated to the E earl arl of southampton a friend of bacon bagon whom Shak apere spere could hardly have known unless 1 from holding bh his bone horse at the door of the theater disregarding its subject it in i ob one L of the most elegant pieces of rheto cical poe poetry try that englel h literature baa has produced to tin this day such a production from a young countryman cau country isyou if you clespe who could only have known the Warwick warwickshire shire dialect dialect had had little opportunity for refined tudy study odthe of the language and anti who bad been earning his hi bread by holding bolding forsea horw and was now engaged inin in minor capacity ineide inside a theater would I 1 think I 1 ani justi juet fird in saying have been not only y a phenomenon but hut a miracle soma if the bonnet eon net very fini pro also appeared and some of the earliest ploys plays are filan up pull I 1 pol foed red by come some critics critic to have seen the li licht ht about this time J 3 A 4 I 1 nm hett P 1 i or partner with an able bookseller and pub publisher libber rf if thedac the day that lie frequented coffee collea hous house that iu in the tile booksellers bobki eller i hop during doring the lie lp apil hall il to boobe which him to study anil and that in lie tile affire huo hut h hu u t o which were a al 7 by n rn e of ilie tile wile and anen f lb tb world of f the day he lie acquired hi bi extraordinary knowledge 1 ot of nini au aul 1 elih ati it this training for genius were go to or ica cious iu in hie his cai ral why hit h it not cince vince been biati I t to be ell why is not nw now the tile culture of if ui uj ahnie ta s td isted CAP 1 bv by giving the ue u u of if it fin kited and the tile society of a cul W lluu need of or teho llla and still audies and anti lecture roni daylight a ail d midnight nil oil ivull il ull that cullate cleverness cle veriie for it meet most development ie is ac tic ceils in to certain books varied by iu in cluver conversations eat ions with defer clever men in their intervals of lion tion at a club Shake per gradually rose in hi profession of an actor but never acquired eminence in ill it he ife acted in lla hamlet inlet not hn the martof ham let but the ghost he ile is described at this inie time by by an unfortunate dramatist It ilbert bert greene ha who seemed to attribute his li n ewt failure to ti the tile nice isrul rivalry M the tile new dew author as aft being an up icart crow be beautified a atif tell ith our feather feathers that with hia ti gerlo hearl heart wrape in a pid tyer I 1 I 1 hide ito I 1 e eup poe popes he is u as well aters able le to to bon bombast ba st nut out a bank blank veree verse aa the bett bet of you and baingan an abio absolute lute bicio turn is in hia his own conceit the only in a coundrie coun trie 11 in 1596 he ia is living in south wark in ili 1593 1598 he lie it ahna risen to be ile a shareholder and anti manager of the tile albe and theaters ano and I 1 is rich to buy naw new place at stratford ve we hear of if him hint lending mone innoes and anti Strat Ri ratford forA allce a year in 1599 15 he obtains obtain a grant of a it crat cost charnis from heralds Herald college buve buys more land hind at tn ili 1601 ilia his father who ha a I 1 fail cd in ati in aits in 1603 5 ho lie is in mad a fl ur turi isbin abing st 11 manager ot oi the globe in which he was one of the 1 largett rheet shareholders he ile acta before ore file court buya buys more land jand at stratford St raiford in 1089 we beer herr of him as a plaintiff iu in small actions tt hia hill fellow townsmen at Str allord for recover recovery of email luana or malt delivered ilithe in the period from 1593 1303 to 1609 the tile wonderful plays appear one or two or more a year the ear earliest liet play plays a are sup opposed by onie critic critics to have appt appeared ared in 1585 about ane saine tinie that Shaki pere left Strat stratford fird 0 in 1610 when then he ie is in the prime office of life at ht forty eatn beven lie retiree retire to lit stratford ona on A von sni nd betakes hibst if to riep udy I 1 y and anti libern turc atun it no re C un it a bie his old calling ii wool woul tt et apler rho shakespeare playe plays now cesi c ti to appear and arid this just at the time me tile would have thought that will vill Shak spere had acquired the learning le arnio and anti leisure t write with increased in 1611 he lie as a a party 1 to a lawsuit Stratford at St nuford mill nith a n beigh t i gh bor on april iala Shak opere died at Z trat furd in avon in its the tile diary of air sir ward vicar ol 01 0 8 stratford ratford r fleca rot thi this oil irl shavere Shak Sh akere spere 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