SHAKESPEARE STUDIES

IN

BACONIAN LIGHT.

BY

ROBERT M. THEOBALD, M.A.
(Author of “ Dethroning Shakespeare; former Editor of

“The Bacon Journal").

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1901.

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Oberon.-Now, my Titania, wake you, my sweet Queen !
Titania.-My Oberon ! what visions have I seen !

Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
Oberon.—There lies your love !
Titania.

How came these things to pass ?
(), how mine eyes do loath his visage now.
Oberon. – Silence awhile! Robin, take off this head.

M. N. D.

Are you native of this place ? Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

As You Like It.

What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool!

Tempest.

Ass ! I'll take that burden from your back.

King John.

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2.

CHAP. II.-Presumptive Evidence

Section 1. Shakspere's Personal History

Greene's Groatsworth of Wit

3. Probabilities

4. The Lawyer

5. The Aristocrat

6. The Classical Scholar .

7. Various Accomplishments

8. Shakspere Biography

CHAP. III.–Francis Bacon .

Section 1. The Scholar and Man of the World .

The Poet

3. Bacon's Concealments

4. Bacon's Literary Output .

5. Bacon's Assurance of Immortality

6. Personal Characteristics

2.

(1) Striking the Breast

(2) Bacon's Fall

(3) Bacon's Self-vindication

(4) Bacon's Dramatic Faculty

(5) Bacon's Verdict against Himself

CHAP. IV.-I Cannot Tell

CHAP. V.-Companionship in Calamity

CHAP. VI.—The Philosophy of Wonder.

CHAP. VII.-Bacon's Philosophy of Hope