The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

by Delia Bacon

From the "The Historical Part of this work (which was originally the principal part, and designed to furnish the historical key to the great Elizabethan writings), though now for a long time completed and ready for the press, and though repeated reference is made to it in this volume, is, for the most part, omitted here. It contains a true and before unwritten history, and it will yet, perhaps, be published as it stands; but the vivid and accumulating historic detail, with which more recent research tends to enrich the earlier statement, and disclosures which no invention could anticipate, are waiting now to be subjoined to it."

596 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2000

About the author

Delia Bacon was an American writer of plays and short stories, best known for her work on the Shakespeare authorship question.

She promoted the theory that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a group of men, including Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, which may have included Edmund Spenser, Lord Buckhurst and the Earl of Oxford.

Reviews

[Forked Radish]

The book that started the BS. Shakspeare collaborated with both Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher which precludes any authorship conspiracy.