Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Baconian theory
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Broader term:Narrower term:Used for:- Bacon-Shakespeare controversy
- Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship
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Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together With a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, by Edwin Durning-Lawrence, contrib. by Francis Bacon (Gutenberg text)- Bacon, Shakespeare, and the Rosicrucians (London: G. Redway, 1888), by William Francis C. Wigston
- The Bacon-Shakspere Question Answered (second edition; London: Trubner and Co., 1889), by C. C. Stopes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Francis Bacon and His Secret Society, by Mrs. Henry Pott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain Shakespeare, the Rosicrucian Mask (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1891), by William Francis C. Wigston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers, and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (typescript version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers and Application to Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (ca. 50-page printed version; c1916), by George Fabyan
- The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays (Chicago et al.: R. S. Peale and Co., 1888), by Ignatius Donnelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Greatest of Literary Problems, the Authorship of the Shakespeare Works: An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1915), by James Phinney Baxter
- The Greatest of Literary Problems, the Authorship of the Shakespeare Works: An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment (second edition, 1917; this copy bound with Mirrielies' "John Wyclif's Freudian Complex" from 1930 at the front), by James Phinney Baxter, contrib. by Lucia B. Mirrielees
- Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1909), by Mark Twain
- Lessons in the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon of Verulam, Viscount St Alban (expanded version of his "Fundamental Principles of the Baconian Ciphers..."; c1916), by George Fabyan
- The Mystery of Francis Bacon (London: R. Banks and Son, 1912), by William T. Smedley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Secret Shakespearean Seals: Revelations of Rosicrucian Arcana, Discoveries in the Shakespeare Plays, Sonnets, and Works, Printed Circa 1586-1740, of "Secreti Sigilli", Concealed Author's Marks and Signs (Nottingham: H. Jenkins, 1916), by Fratres Roseae Crucis
- Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Shakespeare Myth (London: Gay and Hancock, 1912), by Edwin Durning-Lawrence (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Bacon's Secret Disclosed in Contemporary Books (London: Gay and Hancock, 1911), by Granville C. Cuningham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The False "Shakespeare Epitaph" Now at Stratford-on-Avon: Why, When, and By Whom Was the Original "Mystic Shakespeare Stone" of 1616 Removed From the Chancel of the Church, and Where is it Now? (leaflet; c1916), by C. A. Montgomery
- The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded, by Delia Bacon, contrib. by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
- The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Greatest of Literary Problems, the Authorship of the Shakespeare Works: An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1915), by James Phinney Baxter
- The Greatest of Literary Problems, the Authorship of the Shakespeare Works: An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment (second edition, 1917; this copy bound with Mirrielies' "John Wyclif's Freudian Complex" from 1930 at the front), by James Phinney Baxter, contrib. by Lucia B. Mirrielees
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Authorship- William Shakespeare and Robert Greene: The Evidence (Oakland, CA: Tribune Pub. Co, 1912), by William Hall Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Errors of Modern Infidelity, Illustrated and Refuted (Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliot and Co., 1848), by Samuel M. Smucker (multiple formats at Google)
- Historic Doubts Respecting Shakspeare, Illustrating Infidel Objections Against the Bible (new edition of "The Errors of Modern Infidelity"; 1853), by Samuel M. Smucker (multiple formats at Google)
- A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI, Tending to Shew That Those Plays Were Not Written Originally by Shakspeare (London: Press of H. Baldwin, 1787), by Edmond Malone (page images at Google)
- The Critics Versus Shakspere: A Brief for the Defendant (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1907), by Francis Asbury Smith
- Sous le Masque de "William Shakespeare": William Stanley, VIe Comte de Derby (2 volumes in French; Paris: Payot et cie, 1918-1919), by A. Lefranc
- Hidden Allusions in Shakespeare's Plays: A Study of the Oxford Theory, Based on the Records of Early Court Revels and Personalities of the Times (New York: W.F. Payson, c1931), by Eva Turner Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Oxfordian (volumes prior to the most recent one freely readable online; 1998-) (partial serial archives)
- L'Auteur d'Hamlet et Son Monde (in French; Paris: Librarie des Bibliophiles Parisiens, 1914), by Célestin Demblon
- The Passionate Pilgrim (from the second edition; London: Printed for W. Iaggard, 1599), contrib. by William Shakespeare (HTML at uvic.ca)
- Double Falsehood (sources attributed here variously to Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Shirley; Western Reserve University Bulletin, new series, v. 23 no. 3, 1920), by Mr. Theobald, ed. by Walter James Graham, contrib. by William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and James Shirley
- Double Falshood: or, the Distrest Lovers (supposedly based on a lost play by Shakespeare and Fletcher; this edition based on the second edition of 1728, with notes on variants), by Mr. Theobald, ed. by John W. Kennedy, contrib. by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (HTML with commentary at skensoftware.com)
- The London Prodigal (Gutenberg text)
- The Passionate Pilgrim (attributed to Shakespeare and various other authors), contrib. by William Shakespeare
- The Passionate Pilgrim: Being a Reproduction in Facsimile of the First Edition, 1599, From the Copy in the Christie Miller Library of Britwell (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1905), ed. by Sidney Lee, contrib. by William Shakespeare
- Pseudo-Shakespearian Plays (5 volumes; Halle: M. Miemeyer, 1883-1888), ed. by Karl Warnke and Ludwig Proescholdt, contrib. by William Shakespeare
- The Puritaine Widow (Gutenberg text)
- The Shakespeare Apocrypha: Being a Collection of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed to Shakespeare (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Tucker Brooke, contrib. by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, Which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But Which are Not Included With His Writings in Modern Editions (first American edition; New York: G.F. Cooledge and Brother, 1848), ed. by William Gilmore Simms, contrib. by William Shakespeare, illust. by Alexander Anderson
- Lilies That Fester, and Love's Constancy (adaptation of Arden of Faversham, and adapted extract from Edward the Third; New York: Brentano's, c1906), by William Poel
- Sir John Oldcastle (parts attributed to Shakespeare) (Gutenberg text)
- The Shakespeare Apocrypha: Being a Collection of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed to Shakespeare (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908), ed. by Tucker Brooke, contrib. by William Shakespeare (multiple formats at archive.org)