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Baconian Essays

by E. W. Smithson

Level C1 · AdvancedClassics10 chapters
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About this book

Explore the controversial theory that the plays and poems attributed to Shakespeare were actually penned by hidden authors, challenging long-held beliefs about literary history and authorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean times. Dive into a provocative reexamination of the Bard’s legacy.

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Contents

10 chapters in all. The first chapter is free to read with no account.

02INTRODUCTORY
03THE MASQUE OF “TIME VINDICATED”[28]
04SHAKESPEARE—A THEORY
05BEN JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE BEN JONSON AND SHAKESPEARE[44]
06BACON AND “POESY”
07“THE TEMPEST” AND ITS SYMBOLISM “THE TEMPEST” AND ITS SYMBOLISM[73]
08THE COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF SHAKESPEARE AND BACON
09THE NORTHUMBERLAND MANUSCRIPT
10FINAL NOTE

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