As You Like It
BY
M.SENNETT
....how brief the life of man
Runs his erring pilgrimage.
As You Like It, Act III, Scene 2
First Edition 1949
THE BACON SOCIETY
TO
MY VERY
GOOD FRIENDS
J.TURNER
&
M.B.T.
I Dedicate this Book
(Mabel Sennet was Chairman of the Council of the Francis Bacon Society, formerly spent some years in a study of pyschology and interpretation of dreams. This study, combined with a conviction that Francis Bacon is the true Shake-speare, throws a new light upon the great dramas and provides a key to their deeper meaning. This allegorical interpretation is supported by quotations from many writers of mysticism and mystical experience and elucidated further by selected portions of the works of Francis Bacon.)
Chapter |
Page |
Introduction |
5 7 |
I. Is Interpretation Allowable |
13 |
II. The Psychological Clue |
17 |
III. The Three Sons |
22 |
IV. Conflict |
28 |
V. Fair Princess |
33 |
VI. The Two Dukes |
39 |
VII. A Conquest And A Chain |
48 |
VIII. The Forest |
55 |
IX. Jaques |
61 |
X. The Banishment of Oliver |
73 |
XI. The Forest Folk 1.Corin and the sheep |
75 |
XII.The Brothers In The Forest 1.Orlando and Ganymede |
81 |
XIII. The Kingdom Regained |
91 |
XIV. Conclusion |
95 |
Appendix a) The Teaching Of The Play |
101 |
The poets are thus liberating gods. The ancient British bards had for the title of their order, "Those who are free throughout the world." They are free, and they make free......I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary. If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public, and heeds only this one dream, which holds him like an insanity, let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism. ---EMERSON
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