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Title: Bacon is Shake-speare
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir, 1837-1914
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Publisher: London and New York : Gay & Hancock, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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7-48) where he will read, England affordes those glorious vagabonds That carried earst their fardels on their backes** Coursers to ride on through the gazing streetes.Now glance at the top picture on the title page(see Plate 27, Page 115,) which is enlarged in Plate 30,Page 122. Note that the picture is enclosed in themagic circle of the imagination, surrounded by themasks of Tragedy, Comedy, and Farce (in the sameway as Stothards picture of the Merry Wives ofWindsor, Plate 32, Page 127). The engraving repre-sents a tempest with beacon lights ; No ; it representsThe Tempest of Shakespeare and tells you thatthe play is filled with Bacon lights. (In the sixteenthcentury Beacon was pronounced Bacon. Bacongreat Beacon of the State.) We have already pointed out that The Tempest,as Emile Montegut shewed in the Revue des DeuxMondes in 1865, is a mass of Bacons revelationsconcerning himself. At the bottom (see Plate 27, Page 115, and Plate31, Page 123), within the four square corners of fact,
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X o Oh w Plate XXXII. Scene from The Merry Wives of Windsor, iainted byThomas Stothard. Bacon is Shakespeare. 129 surrounded with disguised masks of Tragedy, Comedy,and Farce, is shewn the same man who gave the scrollto the Spearman, see Plate 29, Page 118 (note thepattern of his sleeves). He is now engaged in wTitinghis book, while an Actor, very much overdressed andwearing a mask something like the accepted mask ofShakespeare, is lifting from the real writers head acap known in Heraldry as the Cap of Maintenance.Again we refer to our quotation on page 48. Those glorious vagabonds Sooping it in their glaring Satten sutes. Is not this masquerading fellow an actor Soopingit in his glaring Satten sute ? The figure which we sayrepresents Bacon, see Plate 28, wears his clothes as agentleman. Nobody could for a moment imagine thatthe masked creature in Plate 31 was properly wearinghis own clothes. No, he is sooping it in his glaringSatten sute. The whole title page clearly shows that it is

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