I have to do a book review for history class on Francis Bacon and Shakespeare (like supposedly they were the same person or something like that). And I'm having trouble finding anything. When I did a library search for Sir Francis Bacon, I got this weird artist guy (his art is totaly crazy if you're interested). And I need a "scholarly" book on this (the connection between Bacon - not the artist- and Shakespeare) by monday. Help!
2006-09-19 10:07:17 · 6 answers · asked by Lissa 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
If your teacher is making you write a paper in which you have to write as though Bacon were the writer of Shakespeare's plays, then he or she is incompetent. Still, here is a source I found on a college library site. Notice that it's way old; the theory is way out of vogue these days. You probably need to search library collections rather than just doing google or yahoo searches.
Bacon is Shake-speare / by Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, bart. ... together with a reprint of Bacon's Promus of formularies and elegancies, collated with the original ms. by the late F. B. Bickley and rev. by F. A. Herbert ... Publisher New York : The John McBride co., 1910.
2006-09-20 14:52:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean they were the same person?? They had different names even. I have heard something about a theory someone had, where Bacon wrote most of the other guys plays. I don't know, some people still think the world is flat too. Good luck.
2006-09-19 11:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by buccaneersden 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about a book, but the links listed below are relatively scholarly, and offer a good background in the theories surrounding the two men. Hope this helps!!!
2006-09-19 10:14:19 · answer #3 · answered by BasBleu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should have access to your school library...that would be the best place to find some "scholarly" material.
Bacon is odd(check out his self portrait)....but interesting:)
2006-09-19 10:11:20 · answer #4 · answered by lethallolita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the following link...
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/evidence.htm
It has a bibliography.
It also has some good information you might be able to use.
2006-09-19 10:18:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well this has what Mark Twain had to say on the subject
http://home.att.net/~tleary/homea.htm
You will have to scroll a little
:)
2006-09-19 10:29:10 · answer #6 · answered by Noble Angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋