The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works
An Expostion of all Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment
by
James Phinney Baxter
with Illustrations
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Cambridge Press
1915
I Dedicate
This Book to My Wife
In Whose
Presence it was written, yet who
Before it came from the press
Left me alone
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but
TIME and CHANCE happeneth to them all.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue Why and how the Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy came
about xix I. The Setting of the Stage The Elizabethan Age and its Influence in shaping the
Thoughts and Acts of the Men of the Time 1 II. The Theme The Greatest Birth of Time--The "Shakespeare" Works and
how they have been regarded by Commentators and Critics 19 III. The Ghost of Hamlet 32 IV. The Greatest of Literary Problems All that is known of him and supposed to be known of
him-- An attempt to ascertain if the Author's Face shows in
his Offspring--As seen by his contemporaries-- The
Quartos--The Folios--Henslowe's Diary--Plays excluded from
the First Folio-- Second, Third, and Fourth Folios--Blind
Guides 65 V. A Study of Other "Shakespeare" Plays Do they reflect the same Face? 163 VI. Mythical Relics A Criticism of all the Relics in Existence accredited to
the Actor with Comparative Illustrations 224 VII. A Crucial Question An essay in Graphology--Facsmiles from Will and other
Documents--A Critic criticized, etc. 269 VIII. Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, Baron
Verulam of Verulam A Review of his life from the Various Angles of his
Biographers from Rawley to Spedding-- His Role-- The
Promus-- The Northumberland Manuscript 297 IX. The Sonnets 378 A Study of the Cult and its Bearing on the Secret of
Bacon's Life 392 What it was and the Use it anciently
performed--WaterMarks--Cryptograms-- Title
-Pages--Anagrams--Acrostics 405 XII. Anonymous and Pseudonymous Authorship Edmund Spenser 436 XIII. A Literary Syncrisis Peele--The Arraignment of Paris--David and Bethsabe 464 XIV. Masks Robert Greene--Christopher Marlowe--Thomas
Kyd--Burton 479 XV. Thumb Marks Curious Proofs determining the Authorship of the
"Shakespeare" Works 489 XVI. Ciphers The Word Cipher--Method of Applying--The Biliteral
Cipher--The Ciphers in Bacon's Works--The "Argenis"--Robert
Devereux, Earl of Essex--The Queen's Ring 521 Epilogue A Summary showing where the Actor and the Courtier were,
and what they were doing at Stated Periods of their
Lives 615 Bibliography 633 Index 665
William Shakspere of Stratford--In London--His Favorite
Role
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