Oxford eagle., 1888-03-08
BaC0s oa SHAKESPEARE
DID Francis Bacon ARTTE
SHAKESPEARE ?



and R'ackgriars TheateTs. have
Il 4 tu introduce e carefully stud
fed details aad dark aEd >1ntie
illusions such IS these : It vas
not this out OF Jhe-wsy kuuvl-
edge sud learning ju the Pays
THAT sould draw, for very tev
8f those who attended the rep
reselfstious cagil perceive or
sypreriate them.
II must have been introduced
for the satisfaction 81 the writer
ef ;he PLAYS. who must hsve
been SO novice. bus 1 learned
aul cultivated mau. who was
ilunri aad csuld play With iIs
ku1wiedze. tie must have bad
books Uf his own Or have bad
access to the best libraries of
he d4y Hs must have been =
deep reader aud thinker a maa
y hose mIud Vas not Ouiy well
stored Dat teemIa< aud bFIm
miug over With knOwsedge
Even if there were Ho person 20
whom these wonderful Plays
c1uld be htiy attributed the IN
ference would have been the
sam there must have beea
some very clever and sgutiite
man ia the background who
WrOte tkym
Aud hat j. thege unlikely IN
he ugflpu that Sbakspere. the
Jusy and successful theatrical
manager. = we'll ~ do. pr0spe
roGS. hastliEg m1n. should have
Kept . plsywFiteF whose Drains
he used TO write his plays
Shaksyrre's taste lay IN the
bringing cut of plays aud man
sgemeut of the stage business
Tais work OF selection of the
plavs and OF the actors. the
choice Of the caste. aud the re
hcFsais. Is nowadays OEe mah =
Eors. especially ia bringing out
PLAYS Of 81 length as Shaxs-
peaEes- fhtS must have been
muea more the ease three huu-
lrrI Years ago, when the bust
aess was not so we'll uuieTstoS,I,
4ui actgrs were not so ~iucat-
Ell au Intelligent a class as nov.
hakeS geEr's object. Which he
attained was to make his thea
ter pay. and make money. get "a
v'lat OF .Erus, buy iand aud re
SIre 10 his native place Play
%rirIng was a I4boTIuUs. not d
paying. business Four or i've
pounds Was the stock price. IL
Is believed, Of q play In these
lays Shakespeare would Hot
have grown rich. as he Biz. Il he
.,.s,I e,nplay~d has IlunrS aad Ell
rTgies hrst IN acquiring tire
IeaTuIuS :sHd literary skill ueces
>aFy to write the ".ayS: and
secondly Ia writing -leu. His
contemporaries Ben JuHs0n aud
S@eOu. both literary men of the
flrst Ureier- were poor men fSI
the ere ter part Ot their lives.
ht.St oha spere, the actor sud
t.isatsf ulaDsgeT, grew Ticif: anti
tent zen JuuSOu money.
No, surely. there is nothing
unreasonable in the theory that
seine able maa IL the back
ground vEVJe the PE.Es. some
one VINO had gO0d Reason for
~eepIhs ais name unknown. aHd
*I1 KS satisfied 10 use a. itis
cover >nakspvTe, lhe popular
taeaieF ui.snag~F uf tit,. lay. whn.
4t ali events tor the Il e. VA
~ ue 4slua ed EIs- credit af them
ii ZEE BACOSIsS THEoRY
Tar Theory that Francis Ba
com WIS the m-sa behind Eh.
scenes l. mot a uew ou-. al
though Il has ia>rn Igns Ia fuTc
IaS IFS say To the front. esprci-
sIsy m = III Sadkespefr's owl
cuuaTFy
Jr ths.He,S lB- of delbgurue.
5r.,Iags a g4aT Fue 6Fss To- raiss-
tHr IN >steu VA II rsre taI
srs'is-. IA His Historic ID a1ss
Mr. Sye,ieEsax, sae writer OF
Blruis = 1T. a. early as FrbIua-
-. lo5-- pl.afrd "a paper. ~ ho
sf"sr shakespeare, Hrusy
viii tracing sIsus # twu
bands Ia tiI- play tie Eas fol
! yrst by au afIIify af1lTs writer
VA Chsasers' Ei.a5srtA Journal
Edo for the ETst time discussed
the IN stI0n. " ho WFUte hakS
pearr snd arrived ~ the eau-
rlusIvu that William Shaksg-r~
Sept poet Srgth=r OF these
writer's suggested any claimant 7
for the hua0rs In Saaksp-rr's /
place
it ESs reserved for a Issly. +
Mss Della Bacon. four al
later, 10 ErSt proPouad the theo /
-, IA / pspsF published In Pat
mans American Magazine In
.ej6, that L0i Il Bacon, her name
szSe b. coincidence, Was the
wanted Men stood
sghsst and sueered at her In
her 0wa country She came to
Eusilas. 10 tiuI all men aud We
men arFayrd against her. She
sOGIanfully adhered u aud
preached the belief which had
taken pusSs ssIOu of ber Some
lev people we're convinced, but
her evok fel. dead She return
Ell To- uer own country aud soou