Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown
by Andrew Lang
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. 1912
ISBN/ASIN: 1406526452
Number of pages: 319
Description:
The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of 'Shakespeare's plays,' has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. The Baconian theory is universally rejected in England ...
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
Bob Dylan's Career as a Blakean Visionary and Romanticby Eugene Stelzig - Milne Library
This discussion - written almost four decades ago - of the deep affinities between Dylan's song poetry and the Romantics, especially William Blake, is one of the early 'scholarly' as opposed to popular appreciations of Dylan's art ...
(7079 views)
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanityby Theodore L. Steinberg - Open SUNY Textbooks
The book attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of studying literature.
(7299 views)
The Erotic Motive in Literatureby Albert Mordell - Boni and Liveright
This work is an endeavour to apply some of the methods of psychoanalysis to literature. It attempts to read closely between the lines. It applies some principles in interpreting literature with a scrutiny hitherto scarcely deemed permissible.
(6903 views)
Thackerayby Anthony Trollope - Macmillan and Co.
This book surveys the life and works of the author of Vanity Fair. It is an introductory text about an author who is still popular today, and offers insights into Victorian assumptions about novel writing, providing an account of Thackeray's life.
(6550 views)