Did Francis Bacon write
Shakespeare?
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Stratford-upon-Avon. Proc. Soc. Antiq. , 2nd ser. , vol. xvi, p. 42, 1895.
Forster, H. R. A few remarks on the Chandos portrait of Shakspeare. 1849.
Friswell, J. H. Life portraits of Shakspeare. 1864.
Furness, W. R. Composite photography applied to the portrait of Shake-
speare. Philadelphia, 1885.
Illustrated catalogue of portraits in the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford.
1896.
Norris, J. P. A. Bibliography of works on the portraits of Shakespeare.
Philadelphia, 1879.
Page, W. A study of Shakespeare's portraits. 1876.
Scharf, G. On the principal portraits of Shakspeare. 1864. [From Notes
and Queries. )
Spielmann, M. R. On the portraits of Shakespeare. In vol. x of the
Stratford Town Shakespeare. 1907.
Tausig, P. Shakespeare-Porträts in der Gemmoglyptik. Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XLI, 1905.
Wivell, A. An inquiry into the history, etc. of the Shakspeare portraits
(with supplement). 1827.
11. MISCELLANEOUS.
Boaden, J. A letter to George Stevens, Esq. , containing a critical examina-
tion of the papers of Shakspeare published by Mr S. Ireland. 1796.
Chalmers, G. An apology for the believers in the Shakspeare papers which
were exhibited in Norfolk Street. 1797. With supplements. 1799 and 1800.
Ireland, S. Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and
seal of William Shakspeare. 1796.
- An investigation of Mr Malone's claim to the character of scholar,
being an examination of his Inquiry. (1797. )
Ireland, W. H. Confessions: containing the particulars of his fabrication of
the Shakspeare manuscripts. 1805.
Jordan, J. Original collections on Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon,
selected from the original manuscripts written about 1780. Ed. Halliwell-
Phillipps, J. 0. 1864.
Original memoirs and historical accounts of the families of Shakespeare
and Hart. Ed. Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1865.
Malone, E. Inquiry into the authenticity (of the Ireland MSS). 1796.
The Collier controversy :
The plays of Shakespeare: the text regulated by the old copies and by
the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript
emendations. Ed. Collier, J. P. 1853.
Brae, A. E. Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespeare. A review. 1860.
Collier, J. P. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays,
from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632. 1853.
2nd ed. , revised and enlarged. 1853.
Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton. By the late S. T.
Coleridge. A list of all the MS emendations in Mr Collier's folio,
1632; and an introductory preface. 1856.
Reply to Mr N. E. S. A. Hamilton's Inquiry. 1860.
Dyce, A. A few notes on Shakespeare; with occasional remarks on the
emendations of the manuscript-corrector in Mr Collier's copy of the
folio 1632. 1853.
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Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Observations on some of the manuscript emen-
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Hamilton, N. E. S. A. An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript
corrections in Mr J. Payne Collier's annotated Shakspere folio, 1632,
and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr
Collier. 1860.
Hunter, J. A few words in reply to the animadversions of the Reverend
Mr Dyce. 1853.
Ingleby, C. M. The Shakspeare fabrications. 1859.
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Mommsen, Tycho. Der Perkins-Shakespeare. Berlin, 1854.
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complete list of his works and an account of such Shakespeare docu-
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[A full list of the publications relating to this controversy will be found
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The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, etc. :
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Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies. Ed. Pott, Mrs Henry.
1883.
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1907.
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works. 1900.
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the author of the plays. ]
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Pott, Mrs Henry. Francis Bacon and his secret society. Chicago, 1891.
Did Francis Bacon write Shakespeare? 2nd ed. 1893.
Schipper, J. Zur Kritik der Shakespeare-Bacon Frage. Vienna, 1889.
Stopes, C. C. The Bacon-Shakespeare question answered. 2nd ed.
1889.
Wyman, W. H. The bibliography of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
Cincinnati, 1884. (Continued in Shakespeariana, Philadelphia, 1886. )
12. SHAKESPEARE AND THE CONTINENT.
I. General Works,
Elze, K. Die englische Sprache und Literatur in Deutschland. Dresden, 1864.
Engel, J. Shakespeare in Frankreich. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXIV, pp. 66-
118, 1898.
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457
Genée, R. Geschichte der Shakespeare'schen Dramen in Deutschland.
Leipzig, 1870.
Hauffen, A. Shakespeare in Deutschland. Sammlung gemeinnütziger
Vorträge. No. 175. Prague, 1893.
Hense, C. C. Deutsche Dichter in ihrem Verhältnis zu Shakespeare.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vols. I, V, VI, 1865 ff.
Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Berlin, Weimar, 1865 ff.
Joachimi-Dege, M. Deutsche Shakespeare-Probleme im 18. Jahrhundert
und im Zeitalter der Romantik. Leipzig, 1907.
Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien régime. Paris, 1898.
E. tr. London, 1899.
Koberstein, A. Shakespeares allmähliches Bekanntwerden in Deutschland
und Urteile über ihn bis zum Jahr 1773. Vermischte Aufsätze. Leipzig,
1858.
Lacroix, A. L'Influence de Shakespeare sur le théâtre français jusqu'à nos
jours. Brussels, 1858.
Larroumet, G. Shakespeare et le théâtre français. Études d'histoire et de
critique dramatiques, pp. 121 ff. Paris, 1892.
Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare in France. In Shakespeare and the Modern
Stage, with other Essays, pp. 198 ff. London, 1906.
Lotheissen, F. Shakespeare in Frankreich. In Literatur und Gesellschaft
in Frankreich zur Zeit der Revolution. Weimar, 1872.
Pellissier, G. Le Drame Shakespearien en France. In Essais de littérature
contemporaine, pp. 69 ff. Paris, 1893.
Redard, E. Shakespeare dans les pays de langue française. Annales
internationales d'Histoire. Congrès de Paris, 1900. Paris, 1901.
Richter, C. A. Shakespeare in Deutschland in den Jahren 1739-1770.
Oppeln, 1912.
Riedel, W. Über Shakespeares Würdigung in England, Frankreich und
Deutschland. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, vol. XLVIII,
1882.
Suphan, B. Shakespeare im Anbruch der klassischen Zeit unserer Literatur.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxv, pp. 1 ff. , 1889, and Deutsche Rundschau,
vol. Lx, pp. 401 ff.
Thimm, F. Shakespeariana from 1564 to 1864. 2nd ed. London, 1872.
Unflad, L. Die Shakespeare-Literatur in Deutschland. Munich, 1880.
Vincke, G. von. Zur Geschichte der deutschen Shakespeare-Übersetzung
und Bearbeitung. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xvi, pp. 254 ff. , vol. XVII,
pp. 82 ff. , 1881-2. Rptd in Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Bühnengeschichte,
pp. 64 ff. and 87 ff. Hamburg, 1893.
Ward. Vol. 1, pp. 534 ff.
I
II. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.
i. France.
Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare in France (see I. above).
On the performance of 1604 see Journal de Jean Héroard sur l'enfance
de Louis XIII, edd. Soulié et de Barthélemy, vol. I, pp. 88 ff. , Paris,
1868. The suggestion by Coote, M. H. C. (The Athenæum, p. 96, 1865) that
one of the plays performed by the English actors in Paris in 1604 was
Henry IV, is insufficiently founded.
ii. Germany.
Ayrer, Jakob. Dramen. Ed. Keller, A. von. 5 vols. Stuttgart, 1864-5.
Cf. on Ayrer's supposed indebtedness to Shakespeare, Cohn (post);
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Lärm um Nichts, in Album des lit. Vereins in Nürnberg, pp. 1 ff. , 1868;
Robertson, J. G. , Zur Kritik Jakob Ayrers (Diss. ), Leipzig, 1902;
Kaulfuss-Diesch, C. H. , Die Inszenierung des deutschen Dramas an der
Wende des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1905; Becker, G. , Zur
Quellenfrage von Shakespeares Sturm, in Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XLIII,
pp. 155 ff. , 1907; Ward, vol. 11, p. 195.
Englische Comedien und Tragedien. 1620. Rptd 1624. Liebeskampff, oder
Ander Theil der Englischen Comödien und Tragödien. 1630.
The literature dealing with the 'Englische Komödianten' in Germany
is very extensive, and only the more important works are cited below. To
these, the reader is referred for a fuller bibliography.
Cohn, A. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries. Berlin, 1865. Contains texts, with English translations, of
Ayrer's Sidea and Phoenicia, Julius and Hippolyta, Titus Andronicus,
Der bestrafte Brudermord, Romeo and Juliet.
Creizenach, W. Die Schauspiele der englischen Komödianten. Stuttgart,
1889. This edition contains, together with other plays, the Tragoedia
von Tito Andronico, Tugend- und Liebesstreit (which shows similarity
to Twelfth Night), and Der bestrafte Brudermord, oder Prinz Hamlet
aus Dänemark.
painting. 1903.
Cust, L. On a portrait of Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Memorial at
Stratford-upon-Avon. Proc. Soc. Antiq. , 2nd ser. , vol. xvi, p. 42, 1895.
Forster, H. R. A few remarks on the Chandos portrait of Shakspeare. 1849.
Friswell, J. H. Life portraits of Shakspeare. 1864.
Furness, W. R. Composite photography applied to the portrait of Shake-
speare. Philadelphia, 1885.
Illustrated catalogue of portraits in the Shakespeare Memorial at Stratford.
1896.
Norris, J. P. A. Bibliography of works on the portraits of Shakespeare.
Philadelphia, 1879.
Page, W. A study of Shakespeare's portraits. 1876.
Scharf, G. On the principal portraits of Shakspeare. 1864. [From Notes
and Queries. )
Spielmann, M. R. On the portraits of Shakespeare. In vol. x of the
Stratford Town Shakespeare. 1907.
Tausig, P. Shakespeare-Porträts in der Gemmoglyptik. Shakesp. Jahrb.
vol. XLI, 1905.
Wivell, A. An inquiry into the history, etc. of the Shakspeare portraits
(with supplement). 1827.
11. MISCELLANEOUS.
Boaden, J. A letter to George Stevens, Esq. , containing a critical examina-
tion of the papers of Shakspeare published by Mr S. Ireland. 1796.
Chalmers, G. An apology for the believers in the Shakspeare papers which
were exhibited in Norfolk Street. 1797. With supplements. 1799 and 1800.
Ireland, S. Miscellaneous papers and legal instruments under the hand and
seal of William Shakspeare. 1796.
- An investigation of Mr Malone's claim to the character of scholar,
being an examination of his Inquiry. (1797. )
Ireland, W. H. Confessions: containing the particulars of his fabrication of
the Shakspeare manuscripts. 1805.
Jordan, J. Original collections on Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon,
selected from the original manuscripts written about 1780. Ed. Halliwell-
Phillipps, J. 0. 1864.
Original memoirs and historical accounts of the families of Shakespeare
and Hart. Ed. Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. 1865.
Malone, E. Inquiry into the authenticity (of the Ireland MSS). 1796.
The Collier controversy :
The plays of Shakespeare: the text regulated by the old copies and by
the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript
emendations. Ed. Collier, J. P. 1853.
Brae, A. E. Collier, Coleridge, and Shakespeare. A review. 1860.
Collier, J. P. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays,
from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632. 1853.
2nd ed. , revised and enlarged. 1853.
Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton. By the late S. T.
Coleridge. A list of all the MS emendations in Mr Collier's folio,
1632; and an introductory preface. 1856.
Reply to Mr N. E. S. A. Hamilton's Inquiry. 1860.
Dyce, A. A few notes on Shakespeare; with occasional remarks on the
emendations of the manuscript-corrector in Mr Collier's copy of the
folio 1632. 1853.
## p. 456 (#480) ############################################
456
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Dyce, A. Strictures on Mr Collier's new edition of Shakespeare, 1858. 1859.
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. Observations on some of the manuscript emen-
dations of the text of Shakespeare. 1853.
Hamilton, N. E. S. A. An inquiry into the genuineness of the manuscript
corrections in Mr J. Payne Collier's annotated Shakspere folio, 1632,
and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr
Collier. 1860.
Hunter, J. A few words in reply to the animadversions of the Reverend
Mr Dyce. 1853.
Ingleby, C. M. The Shakspeare fabrications. 1859.
A complete view of the Shakspere controversy concerning the manu-
script matter published by Mr J. Payne Collier. 1861. [Contains a
bibliography of the subject. ]
Mommsen, Tycho. Der Perkins-Shakespeare. Berlin, 1854.
Singer, S. W. The text of Shakespeare vindicated from the interpolations
and corruptions advocated by John Payne Collier. 1853.
Wheatley, H. B. Notes on the life of John Payne Collier, with a
complete list of his works and an account of such Shakespeare docu-
ments as are believed to be spurious. 1884. (Reprinted from The
Bibliographer. ]
[A full list of the publications relating to this controversy will be found
in Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual, pp. 2335-7. )
The Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, etc. :
Bacon, Delia. The philosophy of the plays of Shakespeare unfolded.
1857. [Based on an article in Putnam's Monthly, Jan. 1856. ]
Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies. Ed. Pott, Mrs Henry.
1883.
Baconiana, a quarterly journal. Chicago, 1892.
Beeching, H. C. William Shakespeare: player, playmaker, and poot.
A reply to Mr George Greenwood. 1908.
Crawford, C. The Bacon-Shakespeare question. In Collectanea, vol. II.
1907.
Donnelly, I. The great cryptogram: Francis Bacon's cypher in the so-
called Shakespeare plays. 2 vols. Chicago, 1887.
Gallup, E. W. The bi-literal cypher of Francis Bacon, discovered in his
works. 1900.
Greenwood, G. G. The Shakespeare problem restated. 1908. [A re-
statement of the argument that the Stratford Shakespeare was not
the author of the plays. ]
In re Shakespeare (a reply to Canon Beeching). 1909.
Pott, Mrs Henry. Francis Bacon and his secret society. Chicago, 1891.
Did Francis Bacon write Shakespeare? 2nd ed. 1893.
Schipper, J. Zur Kritik der Shakespeare-Bacon Frage. Vienna, 1889.
Stopes, C. C. The Bacon-Shakespeare question answered. 2nd ed.
1889.
Wyman, W. H. The bibliography of the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.
Cincinnati, 1884. (Continued in Shakespeariana, Philadelphia, 1886. )
12. SHAKESPEARE AND THE CONTINENT.
I. General Works,
Elze, K. Die englische Sprache und Literatur in Deutschland. Dresden, 1864.
Engel, J. Shakespeare in Frankreich. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XXXIV, pp. 66-
118, 1898.
## p. 457 (#481) ############################################
Chapters VIII–XII
457
Genée, R. Geschichte der Shakespeare'schen Dramen in Deutschland.
Leipzig, 1870.
Hauffen, A. Shakespeare in Deutschland. Sammlung gemeinnütziger
Vorträge. No. 175. Prague, 1893.
Hense, C. C. Deutsche Dichter in ihrem Verhältnis zu Shakespeare.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vols. I, V, VI, 1865 ff.
Jahrbuch der deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Berlin, Weimar, 1865 ff.
Joachimi-Dege, M. Deutsche Shakespeare-Probleme im 18. Jahrhundert
und im Zeitalter der Romantik. Leipzig, 1907.
Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare en France sous l'ancien régime. Paris, 1898.
E. tr. London, 1899.
Koberstein, A. Shakespeares allmähliches Bekanntwerden in Deutschland
und Urteile über ihn bis zum Jahr 1773. Vermischte Aufsätze. Leipzig,
1858.
Lacroix, A. L'Influence de Shakespeare sur le théâtre français jusqu'à nos
jours. Brussels, 1858.
Larroumet, G. Shakespeare et le théâtre français. Études d'histoire et de
critique dramatiques, pp. 121 ff. Paris, 1892.
Lee, Sidney. Shakespeare in France. In Shakespeare and the Modern
Stage, with other Essays, pp. 198 ff. London, 1906.
Lotheissen, F. Shakespeare in Frankreich. In Literatur und Gesellschaft
in Frankreich zur Zeit der Revolution. Weimar, 1872.
Pellissier, G. Le Drame Shakespearien en France. In Essais de littérature
contemporaine, pp. 69 ff. Paris, 1893.
Redard, E. Shakespeare dans les pays de langue française. Annales
internationales d'Histoire. Congrès de Paris, 1900. Paris, 1901.
Richter, C. A. Shakespeare in Deutschland in den Jahren 1739-1770.
Oppeln, 1912.
Riedel, W. Über Shakespeares Würdigung in England, Frankreich und
Deutschland. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen, vol. XLVIII,
1882.
Suphan, B. Shakespeare im Anbruch der klassischen Zeit unserer Literatur.
Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xxv, pp. 1 ff. , 1889, and Deutsche Rundschau,
vol. Lx, pp. 401 ff.
Thimm, F. Shakespeariana from 1564 to 1864. 2nd ed. London, 1872.
Unflad, L. Die Shakespeare-Literatur in Deutschland. Munich, 1880.
Vincke, G. von. Zur Geschichte der deutschen Shakespeare-Übersetzung
und Bearbeitung. Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. xvi, pp. 254 ff. , vol. XVII,
pp. 82 ff. , 1881-2. Rptd in Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Bühnengeschichte,
pp. 64 ff. and 87 ff. Hamburg, 1893.
Ward. Vol. 1, pp. 534 ff.
I
II. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.
i. France.
Jusserand, J. J. Shakespeare in France (see I. above).
On the performance of 1604 see Journal de Jean Héroard sur l'enfance
de Louis XIII, edd. Soulié et de Barthélemy, vol. I, pp. 88 ff. , Paris,
1868. The suggestion by Coote, M. H. C. (The Athenæum, p. 96, 1865) that
one of the plays performed by the English actors in Paris in 1604 was
Henry IV, is insufficiently founded.
ii. Germany.
Ayrer, Jakob. Dramen. Ed. Keller, A. von. 5 vols. Stuttgart, 1864-5.
Cf. on Ayrer's supposed indebtedness to Shakespeare, Cohn (post);
## p. 458 (#482) ############################################
458
Bibliography
Lützelberger, E. C. J. , Jakob Ayrers Phönizia und Shakespeares Viel
Lärm um Nichts, in Album des lit. Vereins in Nürnberg, pp. 1 ff. , 1868;
Robertson, J. G. , Zur Kritik Jakob Ayrers (Diss. ), Leipzig, 1902;
Kaulfuss-Diesch, C. H. , Die Inszenierung des deutschen Dramas an der
Wende des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 1905; Becker, G. , Zur
Quellenfrage von Shakespeares Sturm, in Shakesp. Jahrb. vol. XLIII,
pp. 155 ff. , 1907; Ward, vol. 11, p. 195.
Englische Comedien und Tragedien. 1620. Rptd 1624. Liebeskampff, oder
Ander Theil der Englischen Comödien und Tragödien. 1630.
The literature dealing with the 'Englische Komödianten' in Germany
is very extensive, and only the more important works are cited below. To
these, the reader is referred for a fuller bibliography.
Cohn, A. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries. Berlin, 1865. Contains texts, with English translations, of
Ayrer's Sidea and Phoenicia, Julius and Hippolyta, Titus Andronicus,
Der bestrafte Brudermord, Romeo and Juliet.
Creizenach, W. Die Schauspiele der englischen Komödianten. Stuttgart,
1889. This edition contains, together with other plays, the Tragoedia
von Tito Andronico, Tugend- und Liebesstreit (which shows similarity
to Twelfth Night), and Der bestrafte Brudermord, oder Prinz Hamlet
aus Dänemark.
