Andrew Lang - Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown

Ibid. , p. 59.

Ibid. , p. 62.

Ibid. , p. 193.

See his Vindicators of Shakespeare , p. 210.

Vindicators , p. 187.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 223.

In Re Shakespeare , p. 54.

In a brief note of two pages ( Cornhill Magazine , November 1911) he makes such reply as the space permits to a paper of my own, “Shakespeare or X?” in the September number. With my goodwill he might have written thirty-two pages to my sixteen, but I am not the Editor, and never heard of Mr. Greenwood’s note till May 1912.

He says that I had represented him as stating that the Unknown genius adopted the name of William Shake-speare or Shakespeare “as a good nom de guerre , without any reference to the fact that there was an actor in existence of the name of William Shakspere, whose name was sometimes written Shakespeare, and without the least idea that the works he published under this pseudonym would be fathered upon the actor.. ” (My meaning has obviously been too obscurely stated by me.)

Mr. Greenwood next writes that the confusion between the actor, and the unknown taking the name William Shakespeare, “did happen and was intended to happen.”

C’est là le miracle !

How could it happen if the actor were the bookless, ignorant man whom Mr. Greenwood describes? It could not happen: Will must have been unmasked in a day. The fact that a strange plot existed was only too obvious. The Unknown’s secret must have been tracked by the hounds of keenest nose in the packs of rival and jealous authors and of actors. None gives tongue.

Francis Bacon Wrote Shakespeare , p. 37.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 333.

In the passage which I quoted, with notes of omission, from Mr. Greenwood (p. 333), he went on to say that the eulogies of the poet by “some cultured critics of that day,” “afford no proof that the author who published under the name of Shakespeare was in reality Shakspere the Stratford player.” That position I later contest.

See chap. XI, The First Folio .

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , pp. 305, 306.

Furness, Merchant of Venice , pp. 271, 272.

On this see Mr. Pollard’s Shakespeare Folios and Quartos , pp. 1–9.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , pp. 202, 348, 349.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 349.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 356.

In Re Shakespeare , p. 88, note I.

Studies in Shakespeare , p. 15; Life of Shakespeare , by Malone, pp. 561–2, 564; Appendix, XI, xvi.

C. I. Elton, William Shakespeare , His Family and Friends , pp. 97, 98.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 44.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 39.

Vindicators of Shakespeare , p. 210.

Vindicators of Shakespeare , p. 187.

Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 223.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 69.

See chapter X, The Traditional Shakespeare .

See C. I. Elton, William Shakespeare , His Family and Friends , pp. 48, 343–8.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , pp. 207–9.

Chapter X, infra.

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , p. 96.

See chapter X, The Traditional Shakespeare .

The Shakespeare Problem Restated , pp. 94–96.