The Bacon–Shakspere Question Answered

Detailed and thoroughly erudite, this book asserts that Francis Bacon did not secretly write the plays of William Shakespeare.

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (Author)

9781108021906, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 November 2010

294 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1829) is best known as the mother of birth control advocate Marie Stopes. Like her daughter, Stopes forged the way for women seeking academic careers: she was the first woman in Scotland to graduate from university, and was later elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In this monograph Stopes resolves to settle once and for all whether or not Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare, concluding that the Baconian theory is wholly without foundation. Over nearly 300 pages of erudite argument, Stopes examines the numerous distinctions between the lives and experiences of the two writers, their differing styles of writing, and the evidence provided by Shakespeare's contemporaries. Stopes' book also includes extensive appendices providing background information on Shakespeare and the early modern theatre. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=stopch

Preface
Some introductory dates
Introductory chapter
1. The probabilities from known character and education of the writer of the plays
2. The internal evidence of Shakspere's plays and Bacon's books
3. Special illustration
4. Whether were the poems and plays claimed by Shakspere or Bacon?
5. External evidence
6. The history of the heresy
7. Bacon's ciphers
Appendix
Index
Press notices.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]