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Show j Shakespeare or Bacon? A heated -discussion arose In the Nineteenth century from an attempt, on the part of Miss Delia Bacon, to prove that Lord Francis Bacon was the author of the plays commonly attributed at-tributed to Shakespeare. William II. Smith, an English scholar; Nathaniel Holmes, In his "Authorship of Shakespeare," Shake-speare," and Mrs. Henry Holmes have also labored In the same direction. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly produced his work entitled "The Great Cryptogram," wherein he endeavored to show "that Bacon's authorship is avowed under a cypher In the teit of the plays In the folio of 1023." Shakespearean scholars schol-ars do not accept the Baconlun theory of authorship. |