Bacon, Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians
Author : William Francis C. Wigston
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Rosicrucians.
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Author : William Francis C. Wigston
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Rosicrucians.
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Author : Barry R. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429639805
Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare advocates a paradigm shift away from a single-author theory of the Shakespeare work towards a many-hands theory. Here, the middle ground is adopted between competing so-called Stratfordian and alternative single-author conspiracy theories. In the process, arguments are advanced as to why Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623) presents as an unreliable document for attribution, and why contemporary opinion characterised Shakspere [his baptised name] as an opportunist businessman who acquired the work of others. Current methods of authorship attribution are critiqued, and an entirely new Rare Collocation Profiling (RCP) method is introduced which, unlike current stylometric methods, is capable of detecting multiple contributors to a text. Using the Early English Books Online database, rare phrases and collocations in a target text are identified together with the authors who used them. This allows a DNA-type profile to be constructed for the possible contributors to a text that also takes into account direction of influence. The method brings powerful new evidence to bear on crucial questions such as the author of the Groats-worth of Witte (1592) letter, the identifiable hands in 3 Henry VI, the extent of Francis Bacon’s contribution to Twelfth Night and The Tempest, and the scheduling of Love’s Labour’s Lost at the 1594–5 Gray’s Inn Christmas revels for which Bacon wrote entertainments. The treatise also provides detailed analyses of the nature of the complaint against Shakspere in the Groats-worth letter, the identity of the players who performed The Comedy of Errors at Gray’s Inn in 1594, and the reasons why Shakspere could not have had access to Virginia colony information that appears in The Tempest. With a Foreword by Sir Mark Rylance, this meticulously researched and penetrating study is a thought-provoking read for the inquisitive student in Shakespeare Studies.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1824
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Author : Andrew Stevens Peck
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781560727347
'The Shakespeare Controversy', otherwise known as 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?', has been a literary problem for generations. Countless attempts have been made to show that someone other than Shakespeare, or some group of people, wrote the Plays and The Sonnets. Peck's method of solving this problem was to look for cipher (secret writing) that might reveal the real author. Rather than searching the thousands of lines of The Plays and The Sonnets for ciphers, he singled out the odd original epitaph on Shakespeare's tombstone as a possible source of a concealed message. The peculiarities of the inscription had coaxed others before him to grapple with its strange context. In this exciting book, the author has demonstrated the importance of mathematical probability in support of ciphers. The math is simplified by interesting explanations. With the ciphers, he then answers the question of authorship while tying Sir Francis Bacon to the Tudor family.
Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144116846X
Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or does he? Going beyond Shakespeare the writer and actor, Graham Holderness explores the fact and fiction, tradition and myth, surrounding Shakespeare's life. Combining biography and fictional narrative, Holderness takes a fresh critical approach to the problem of piecing together a definitive account of Shakespeare's life and work from scant historical information. Instead, this study builds upon and examines the many theories that surround the life of this well-known, yet remarkably unknown man. Nine Shakespeares are presented: writer, player, butcher boy, businessman, husband, friend, lover, Catholic and portrait. By carefully critiquing these biographies and reimagining these nine men, Nine Lives of William Shakespeare creates a unique picture of how this playwright became Shakespeare as he is understood today. Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It goes back to the source – the most living language imaginable – and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will return you to the plays with opened eyes.
Author : William Henry Wyman
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1884
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Printer's copy for this published work (Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson), consisting mainly of the author's autograph but with many printed slips pasted in. The printed book shows many small variations, probably the result of proof reading, but appears not to contain additional listings.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416541632
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : William Thomas Smedley
Publisher : NuVision Publications, LLC
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Paul Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107017599
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.
Author : Edwin Sir Durning-Lawrence, 1837-1914
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781360496900
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