prepared by William Rawley
Visit the 1657 Collection of Posthumous Writings, Speeches & Letters of Sir Francis Bacon page on SirBacon.org
Who Wrote Don Quixote?
book by Francis Carr
Sirbacon.org wishes to thank the Family of Francis Carr for their generosity in allowing users of sirbacon.org to have the option of downloading the PDF of Who Wrote Don Quixote? and purchase of the book via Amazon.
Review of “Law Sports at Gray’s Inn” by Basil Brown
Christina Waldman offers a Brief Review of “Law Sports at Gray’s Inn” by Basil Brown
Bacon, Politics, and Drama
by Dr. Barry R. Clarke
Following PhD work at Brunel University and an academic book ‘Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare’ published by Routledge, Dr Barry R. Clarke argues that Francis Bacon made a contribution to Love’s Labour’s Lost which was intended for performance at the 1595 Gray’s Inn revels but was cancelled.
John Tiffany has an essay that was in the Barnes Review 2013
Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament & His Royal Birth
In his 1958 article, “Francis Bacon and His Father,” Paul H. Kocher describes an incident that took place during Francis Bacon’s maiden speech to Parliament. This was in November, 1584, when Bacon was twenty-three years old. He had just been elected a member of the House of Commons for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis…
Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament & His Royal Birth by Christina Waldman
The Amateur
The Amateur a dramatic film that came out in 1982 starring Christopher Plummer, John Savage, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, and directed by Charles Jarrott has several scenes in which Francis Bacon and Shakespeare are mentioned. The plot centers around the girlfriend of a CIA computer expert who is murdered. Her boyfriend (Savage’s character) decides to doggedly hunt down her killer. In the beginning of his search the Savage character meets with CIA brass to explain how he plans to use Big Bertha, the CIA computer, to run down a facsimile of a 1586 letter from Mary Queen of Scots that portends that she is planning to murder Elizabeth 1st. Savage tells the CIA boss that he is “looking for numerical sequences, acrostics, Elizabethan substitution systems and Bacon’s biliteral cyphers.” Then there is a scene in which Savage attends a lecture on Shakespeare and Bacon cyphers by a university professor played by Christopher Plummer. Later the two characters meet up on a train ride sharing the same compartment.
The Shakespeare Statue in Westminster Abbey
Something Old, Something New
The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam
A Collection of Essays, Letters published in 1648 in PDF
Oldsmobile 1994 “Open Minded” Campaign
In 1994, Oldsmobile car company ran an ad that was called,”Open Minded.”
The commercial begins with the traditional Droeshout image of Shakespeare followed by the narrator stating “So it’s possible then that Shake-speare didn’t write all those plays.” Then there’s a cut to a still frame with the words, “It’s Possible.”
The ad goes on to challenge another traditional idea by saying , “Or that there was no big bang?” followed by the word “Certainly“.
See the ad here: Oldsmobile 1994 “Open Minded” Campaign
Christina Waldman reviews Peter Dawkins new book “Second Seeing Shakespeare”
In his new book, Second-Seeing Shakespeare: “Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?”, Peter Dawkins, respected teacher, author, and founder-principal of the Francis Bacon Research Trust, explains how the art adorning the Shakespeare Monument in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon (ca. 1616-1623) corresponds beautifully with the enigmatic language and Shakespeare “portrait” (Droeshout engraving) in the front matter to the First Folio of 1623, the first comprehensive publication of Shakespeare’s plays.
Review of Second-Seeing Shakespeare: “Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?” by Peter Dawkins
