Christina Waldman
Christina G. Waldman’s Essays, Reviews, & Commentary on All Things Bacon & Shakespeare For SirBacon.org
- Essays, “Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, and the “Secrets of Nature”: Violence, Violins, and—One Day—Vindication?” May 21, 2021 (updated version), https://sirbacon.org/waldman/Waldman Violence Violins Vindication final 5-21-21.pdf
- Preface and chapter one, Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’: A Study of Law, Rhetoric, and Authorship, pp. 1‒4, 15‒32. New York: Algora Publishing, 2018. May 2, 2021. https://sirbacon.org/francis-bacons-hidden-hand.html.
- Review of The Martyrdom of Francis Bacon by Alfred Dodd (London: Rider, 1946), August 24, 2021, https://www.sirbacon.org/Review_The%20Martyrdom%20of%20Francis%20Bacon%20by%20Alfred%20Dodd_Christina%20G%20Waldman%208-24-21.pdf
- “The Cure for Bacon-Shakespeare Skepticism: Read This Book!” Review of The Shakespeare Conspiracies: A 400-Year Web of Myth and Deceit, by Brian McClinton. December 6, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/McClinton%20Review%20Final%20for%20SirBacon%2012-6-2020.pdf.
- Essay, “If Bacon is Shakespeare, What Questions Does that Answer?” November 27, 2020 (revised from March 8, 2019). https://sirbacon.org/If%20Bacon%20is%20Shakespeare%20revised%20final%2011-27-2020%20fr%203-8-19.pdf.
- “Points of note,” comments on Francis Bacon’s Cryptic Rhymes and the Truth They Reveal, by Edward Bormann. Translated by Harry Brett. October 22, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/Edwin-Bormann-Francis-Bacons-Cryptic-Rymes-CGW-for-SirBacon10-22-2020.pdf.
- Review of Law Sports at Gray’s Inn (1594), by Basil Brown [Mrs. Isabel Kittson Brown]. September 29, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/Basil%20Brown%20review%20for%20SirBacon%209-17-20.pdf.
- Essay, “Bacon’s Maiden Speech to Parliament and His Royal Birth,” June 15, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/archives/Bacons%20Maiden%20Speech%20to%20Parliament%20&%20His%20Royal%20Birth%20June%2015%202020-1.pdf.
- Review of Second-Seeing Shakespeare: “Stay Passenger, why goest thou by so fast?” by Peter Dawkins. April 24, 2020. https://sirbacon.org/Review%20of%20Peter%20Dawkins%20Second-Seeing%20Shakespeare%20by%20CGW%204-24-20.pdf.
- Review of Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method, by Barry R. Clarke. October 1, 2019. https://sirbacon.org/Review%20of%20Barry%20Clarke%20FB%20Contrib%20to%20SH%20Final%20Final%2010-1-19.pdf.
- Essay, Why Did Elizabeth Winkler Not Interview Any Baconians? July 5, 2023, Revised June 28, 2024. https://sirbacon.org/waldman/Christina Waldman Why Did Elizabeth Winkler Not Interview Any Baconians–revised 6-28-24.pdf
- Essay, Challenging the Lie in a Free Society: Even in Shakespeare Authorship Studies? October 20, 2023. https://sirbacon.org/waldman/Waldman-to-SirBacon-Solzhenitsyn-10-20-23.pdf
- Essay, Review of María José Falcón y Tella, The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare. Translation by Dierdre B. Jerry of El Derecho en Cervantes y Shakespeare (Marcial Pons, 2021). Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 2021. Revised November 4, 2024
https://sirbacon.org/waldman/Waldman Review of Falcon y Tella The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare revised 11-4-24.pdf
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Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Study in Law, Rhetoric and Authorship
Christina Waldman’s book, Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Study in Law, Rhetoric and Authorship is being published in July 2018 by Algora Publishing with a foreword by Simon Miles. The book explores the function and identity of Bellario, the old Italian jurist whose hand guides Portia’s courtroom performance, although he never actually “appears” in the play. Is Bellario’s identity linked to Francis Bacon, as Mark Edwin Andrews proposed in Law v. Equity in The Merchant of Venice: a Legalization of Act IV, Scene I (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965)?
Appendix IV of the book includes Maureen Ward-Gandy’s 1992 forensic handwriting comparison of the handwriting in a fragment of manuscript, found in binder’s waste, which is clearly a scene variation of The Play of Henry IV, Part One, with the handwriting of Francis Bacon and other contemporaries. In her report, Ms. Ward-Gandy concluded that the handwriting in that drafted scene matched that of Francis Bacon.
Hidden Hand is available from the publisher, https://www.algora.com/545/book/details.html, Amazon, and other sources.
Ms. Waldman would also like to draw your attention to Mather Walker’s essay, “The Symbolic AA, Secrets of the Shakespeare First Folio.” Under the heading “The Secret of Old Eleusis: Plucking Out the Heart of His Mystery,” and under the picture from the Rosicrucian Digest 2000 (about 7/8 down on the scroll bar), there is an acrostic in the opening lines of the poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” written in 1594. The first letters spell FBLAWAO, with the word “law” spelled in the middle. She had not seen this most likely explanation of the name “Bellario” until the book was already published, but has no doubt that the timing is exactly as it should be.
Bacon is Bellario with “Just Deserts for All”
Christina G. Waldman has contributed a new essay, Bacon is Bellario with “Just Deserts for All”:
An explanation of Mark Edwin Andrews’ Second Argument in “Law v Equity” in “The Merchant of Venice’s Legalization of Act IV, Scene I “
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Study in Law, Rhetoric and Authorship
Christina Waldman’s book, Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Study in Law, Rhetoric and Authorship is being published in July 2018 by Algora Publishing with a foreword by Simon Miles. The book explores the function and identity of Bellario, the old Italian jurist whose hand guides Portia’s courtroom performance, although he never actually “appears” in the play. Is Bellario’s identity linked to Francis Bacon, as Mark Edwin Andrews proposed in Law v. Equity in The Merchant of Venice: a Legalization of Act IV, Scene I (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965)?
Appendix IV of the book includes Maureen Ward-Gandy’s 1992 forensic handwriting comparison of the handwriting in a fragment of manuscript, found in binder’s waste, which is clearly a scene variation of The Play of Henry IV, Part One, with the handwriting of Francis Bacon and other contemporaries. In her report, Ms. Ward-Gandy concluded that the handwriting in that drafted scene matched that of Francis Bacon.
Hidden Hand is available from the publisher, https://www.algora.com/545/book/details.html, Amazon, and other sources.
Ms. Waldman would also like to draw your attention to Mather Walker’s essay, “The Symbolic AA, Secrets of the Shakespeare First Folio.” Under the heading “The Secret of Old Eleusis: Plucking Out the Heart of His Mystery,” and under the picture from the Rosicrucian Digest 2000 (about 7/8 down on the scroll bar), there is an acrostic in the opening lines of the poem, “The Rape of Lucrece,” written in 1594. The first letters spell FBLAWAO, with the word “law” spelled in the middle. She had not seen this most likely explanation of the name “Bellario” until the book was already published, but has no doubt that the timing is exactly as it should be.
Bacon is Bellario with “Just Deserts for All”
Christina G. Waldman has contributed a new essay, Bacon is Bellario with “Just Deserts for All”:
An explanation of Mark Edwin Andrews’ Second Argument in “Law v Equity” in “The Merchant of Venice’s Legalization of Act IV, Scene I “
