by A. Phoenix
More Than 100 Contemporary Witnesses to Francis Bacon’s Authorship of the Shakespeare Poems & Plays
Witness 1: The Earl of Southampton
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Witness 1.
Francis Bacon, the Earl of Southampton, Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), the first two works to carry the pseudonym, William Shakespeare
These writings can be classified into four categories: first, texts that Bacon wrote but not for public consumption; second, texts Bacon wrote to be circulated with his name; third, texts Bacon intended to circulate anonymously; and fourth, texts that were intended to circulate under another’s name.
[Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight, eds., The Oxford Francis Bacon: Early Writings 1584-1596 (Oxford Clarendon Press, 2012), p. xxviii]
For obvious reasons the orthodox editors and biographers of Francis Bacon and the biographers of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton have very carefully avoided placing them together even though Bacon and Southampton had a very close, intimate and complex relationship with each other from at least the late 1580s right through to the latter’s death in 1624.
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