So wrote Sir Toby Matthew of Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon graduated with a degree in law from Cambridge and became, like his father before him, Lord Chancellor of England. Of the many works of this philosopher, essayist, translator and scholar, the best known are The Advancement of Learning and The New Atlantis . Bacon's essays on morals remained widely read well beyond his time. Mars lives in thy tongue.
Thine eyes flash fire, thy countenance shakes a spear.
It is important to note that these plays were granted licenses to be performed throughout all of Her Majesty's realm. We know that Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, ran a literary academy at Wilton House, her husband's country estate, and that writers from these ranks remained in attendance there for significant periods of time. The Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable offers study and discussion of the Elizabethan theatre and the social and political life of the Elizabethan period, with emphasis on an open-minded exploration of the authorship of the Shakespeare canon. The Roundtable does not subscribe to a particular theory of authorship or promote a particular candidate for authorship.