Bacon and ShakespeareReprint of the original, first published in 1857. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Wit and Poetic Faculty of Bacon | 13 |
Advanced Years | 19 |
Evidence in Favour of Shakespeare | 25 |
Parallel Passages and Peculiar Phrases | 40 |
Players | 48 |
Playhouses | 64 |
Athenæum and other Objectors answered | 90 |
Popular Errors respecting Lord Southampton | 110 |
An Epitome of what has gone before | 143 |
APPENDIX A Brief Description of a curious MS entitled | 155 |
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