Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-18

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00:01:43 1 Terminology
00:03:00 2 History of Baconian theory
00:08:36 2.1 Baconian cryptology
00:12:42 3 Credentials for authorship
00:16:14 4 Alleged coded references to Bacon's authorship
00:20:55 5 Gray's Inn revels 1594–95
00:25:09 6 Verbal parallels
00:25:19 6.1 Gesta Grayorum
00:27:28 6.2 Promus
00:30:12 6.3 Published work
00:31:54 7 Arguments against Baconian theory
00:36:11 8 References in popular culture
00:39:46 9 See also



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The Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher, essayist and scientist, wrote the plays which were publicly attributed to William Shakespeare. Various explanations are offered for this alleged subterfuge, most commonly that Bacon's rise to high office might have been hindered were it to become known that he wrote plays for the public stage. Thus the plays were credited to Shakespeare, who was merely a front to shield the identity of Bacon.
Bacon was the first alternative candidate suggested as the author of Shakespeare's plays. The theory was first put forth in the mid-nineteenth century, based on perceived correspondences between the philosophical ideas found in Bacon’s writings and the works of Shakespeare. Later, proponents claimed to have found legal and autobiographical allusions and cryptographic ciphers and codes in the plays and poems to buttress the theory. All academic Shakespeare scholars but a few reject the arguments for Baconian authorship, as well as those for all other alternative authors.
The Baconian theory gained great popularity and attention in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, although since the mid-twentieth century the primacy of his candidacy as author of the Shakespeare canon has been supplanted by that of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Despite the academic consensus that Shakespeare wrote the works bearing his name and the decline of the theory, supporters of Bacon continue to argue for his candidacy through organizations, books, newsletters, and websites.