A. Phoenix

Sirbacon.org celebrates the Birthday of William Shakespeare (aka William Shaksper) the world’s most famous literary decoy with a new book & Video from A. Phoenix :

Becoming Shakespeare : The Making of a Genius

New A Phoenix work:

Based on a groundbreaking and revelatory new literary biography covering the virtually unknown part of Bacon’s early life and exploring the extraordinary developing mind that culminated in the Shakespeare works. It reveals Bacon’s royal origins and highlights how his formative years were heavily influenced by the formidably creative, intellectual and political environment of his foster family. Francis Bacon was writing poetry and drama from a very early age, developing his craft behind a series of literary masks as he became Shakespeare.

Read: Becoming Shakespeare: The Making of a Genius

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New book by A. Phoenix

Francis Bacon and his Literary Mask Edmund Spenser

Francis Bacon and his Spenserian Mask

This book shows that Francis Bacon was the actual author of the works traditionally attributed to Edmund Spenser. The work provides a detailed examination of Bacon’s hidden involvement in Elizabethan literature, claiming he utilised various “literary masks” to disseminate secret political and philosophical messages. Central to this theory are the cryptographic devices, anagrams, and numerical ciphers embedded within titles such as The Shepheardes Calender and The Faerie Queene. The book also explores Bacon as the secret son of Queen Elizabeth, using his poetry to navigate the dangerous complexities of the royal succession and his disinherited status. Furthermore, it highlights Bacon’s foundational role in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, suggesting these societies were instruments for his broader intellectual and philanthropic ambitions. Ultimately, the material portrays Bacon as a polymathic genius who orchestrated a vast “conspiracy of silence” to conceal his multifaceted influence on English history.

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Francis Bacon and His Literary Mask Edmund Spenser

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Announcing: 

New book by A. Phoenix

Francis Bacon: the Secret Concealed Author of the Works Attributed to Christopher Marlowe

There are many parallels between the Marlowe & Shakespeare Works.

However, the reasons are NOT because:

• • Shakespeare was influenced by Marlowe
  • Marlowe wrote Shakespeare
  • Marlowe & Shakespeare collaborated

The reason is the Marlowe and Shakespeare Works share a common author and it’s not Marlowe or Shakespeare, it’s Francis Bacon

Read the Book here:
Francis Bacon: the Secret Concealed Author of the Works Attributed to Christopher Marlowe

Book by A. Phoenix

Francis Bacon, his Literary Mask Sir Thomas North, and the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1579), a Major Source for his Shakespeare Plays

Thomas North was a literary mask for Francis Bacon for the great masterpiece of English prose Plutarch’s Lives.

Throughout Bacon’s acknowledged works he refers frequently to Plutarch and Plutarch is a critically important source for many of the Shakespeare plays. It is little known that the North and Bacon families had close and longstanding links and the relationship between Francis Bacon and Thomas North is obscured because of the Shakespeare connection. The close proximity between Plutarch’s Lives and the Shakespeare works is far greater than ever before known in that they both share a common translator and author; namely, Francis Bacon.

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Francis Bacon, his Literary Mask Sir Thomas North, and the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1579), a Major Source for his Shakespeare Plays

by A. Phoenix

This year’s Baconiana: The Journal of the Francis Bacon Society has been published today [November 8, 2025] and features one of our most varied collections of articles to date, with contributions from 17 writers representing numerous disciplines and with some AI-driven creations as well – making this edition at 297 pages among the largest and most diverse we have ever published. For ease of use with such a large work the contents page has some handy red hyperlinks – just click on the article you wish to read and it will take you straight there!

A big thank you to all the contributors for their excellent work and permission to publish it.

Baconiana 2025 features contributions from Simon Bailey, Dr Edi Bilimoria, Peter Dawkins, Rob Fowler, Jonathon Freeman, Lawrence Gerald, Mike Isaacs, Julie Kemp, idb & friends, Professor Martin Jarvis, Yann le Merlus, A Phoenix, E J Roberts, David Taylor, Richard Allan Wagner, Christina G. Waldman, India Wright.

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Baconiana 2025

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