The Bisham Entertainment by Bacon written for his mother Queen Elizabeth a Shakespeare Source

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THE ANONYMOUS BISHAM ENTERTAINMENT WRITTEN BY BACON FOR HIS ROYAL MOTHER QUEEN ELIZABETH-A SOURCE FOR A NUMBER OF HIS SHAKESPEARE PLAYS.

Only three copies survive of the very rare original edition of Speeches Delivered to Her Majesty this Last Progress, at the Right Honourable the Lady Russells, at Bissam printed by Joseph Barnes at Oxford in 1592. Two of these copies are held in the USA: at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, with the other known copy held at the British Library in London. Across the first page of the 1592 edition appears the Baconian-Rosicrucian AA headpiece which attests to its secret Bacon provenance further confirmed by a number of Baconian-Rosicrucian ciphers secretly incorporated into its title page.