THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER 1.—THE LEARNING OF THE PLAYS, III.-SHAKSPERE's REAL CHARACTER, CHAPTER 1.-FRANCIS BACON A Poet, 11.—THE AUTHOR OF THE PLAYS A PHILOSOPHER, III.-THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE PLAYS, IV.—THE POLITICS OF THE PLAYS, VI.-THE PURPOSES OF THE PLAYS, II.-IDENTICAL METAPHORS, III.-IDENTICAL OPINIONS, IV.-IDENTICAL QUOTATIONS, V.-IDENTICAL STUDIES, VI.-IDENTICAL ERRORS, VII.-IDENTICAL Use of UNUSUAL WORDS, VIII.-IDENTITIES OF CHARACTER, IX.- IDENTITIES OF STYLE, 295 335 370 397 411 437 444 462 481 CHAPTER 1.-How I CAME TO LOOK FOR A CIPHER, II.-How I BECAME CERTAIN THERE WAS A CIPHER, CHAPTER 1.-The TREASONABLE PLAY OF RICHARD II., II.-THE TREASONABLE HISTORY OF HENRY IV., WRITTEN BY DR. V.-CECIL TELLS THE STORY OF MARLOWE, VI.—THE STORY OF SHAKSPERE'S YOUTH, VII.-THE PURPOSES OF THE PLAYS, VIII.—THE QUEEN BEATS HAYWARD, IX.-CECIL SAYS SHAKSPERE Did Not WRITE THE PLAYS, X.-SHAKSPERE INCAPABLE OF WRITING THE PLAYS, XII.-SHAKSPERE CARRIED TO PRISON, XIII. - The YouthFUL SHAKSPERE DESCRIBED, XIV.-THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER AND HIS ADVICE, XV.-SHAKSPERE'S ARISTOCRATIC PRETENSIONS, XVII.-SHAKSPERE THE MODEL FROM whicu BACON DREW THE CHARACTERS OF FALSTAFF AND SIR TOBIE, II.-WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, I11.—THE BACONIANS, IV.-OTHER MASKS OF Bacon, V.-FRANCIS BACON, 899 916 923 939 975 ILLUSTRATIONS. 64 ✓ Francis BACON —THE TRUE SHAKESPEARE. After the portrait by Van Somer. Frontispiece. WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. Fac-simile of the celebrated Droeshout portrait in the 1623 Folio, Ben Jonson. After the portrait by Oliver, 96 + GORHAMBURY. Bacon's residence, 160 SIR ROBERT CECIL. 193 FAC-SIMILE OF A PAGE FROM THE AUTHOR's COPY OF THE GREAT FOLIO, 566 LETTER OF LORD CHANCELLOR VERULAM (Francis Bacon) to the University of Cambridge. Fac-simile, 680 QUEEN ELIZABETH. After the portrait in the collection of the Marquis of Salisbury, 712 Robert DEVEREUX, Earl of Essex. After the portrait in the collection of the Earl of Verulam, 632 WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, 920 WILLIAM D. O'CONNOR, NATHANIEL HOLMES, MRS. CONSTANCE M. Potr, 944 DR. WILLIAM THOMSON, PROF. THOMAS DAVIDSON, 928 936 950 958 |