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published by the Coburn Publishing
Company of Boston, Mass, entitled
<sCoincidences - Bacon and Shakes
neare.o is revived the interest IN the
old question of the authorship OF the
Shakespearean plays.
The contention of Mr.. Reed IS, II
certain knowledge is found IN the known
works of Bacon that must have come
from a peculiar personal experience
and that Bacon was known to have nad
this experiences; and that the same
knowledge was found in the dramas;
and that Shakespeare was known not
to have had the personal experience
from which it could have been derived
the author of the dramas must OF
necessity have been the man who had
had the experience, namely, Bacon.
Also. that if Bacon was known to
have displayed popularity OF literary
stvle-a remarkably large vocabulary,
for instance-and that Shakespeare was
known also to have displayed the same
popularity, the author OF the essays
and the author of the plays must OF
necessity have been the same man.
In support of this theory, Reed mas
collected certain parallel facts which ne
calls .Coincidences, and has set them
side by side under separate headings,
numbering them from / to u. Here
are a few:
s. Shakespeare vocabulary IS the
saroest ever attained by any individual
IN any language or in any age or the
world. Baeon's is equally reaarhaoie
for its extent and richness. $50.
- Immeaiately before the histor1-
nal drama Of King Henry VI. was writ
49, Raeon visited the English battle
Grounds described in that drama, IN
France.
-, attache of the British Embassy
in France. to investigate the career OF
Joan of Arc. The author OF the drama
of King Henry VI. must actually nave
visited it. ~
~a1ath -
fr;and. 10Y a person of high rank, ana
IaS concealed poet Bacon answers
~ this description in every particular
on The first Of the Shakespeare
noems to be published was dedicated
r. one of Bacon IS most intimate friends,
. nohleman whose consent (for the want
IF which a play actor would have lost
his earsl had not been previously ob-
tanned.
81 This poem was written before
4he renuted poet s arrival in London,
with no possible education beyond that
.afforded by the Stratford grammar
school. And yet, as agreed by all
.acbolars who have examined the SUBJ
iect. II bears every mark of collegiate
elegance and culture.
2S Bacon became debtor to Jew
and was arrested in the street for nom
navment under circumstances designed
= DISGRACE him. 1t was but month
or two afterward that Shakespeare
mrodueed the stMerehant of Venice
with Shylock as it's principal character.
On Roth of our authors had great
-aamiration for the character OF Juilus
caesar one calling him ssthe noblest
,nan that ever lived. y and the other,
4 & the wOrtbleSt HdH thde cs0i
Shakespeare wrote drama and Bacon
biography of him. Both were I'M
messed with Caesars work on the
calendar. -
II. In Shakespeare 3 series of his.
torieal dramas the reign of Henry VII.
e strangely omitted; but Bacon wrote
. history of it in prose, beginning at
the exact point where Shakespeare
left off in the preceding drama, and
geaving off at the exact point where
shakespeare began again in the next;
81. Each has been considered py
excellent Judges the greatest intel
lectual force that ever existed IN the
world
SO. The tragedies of Shakespeare
and the Essays of Bacon are equaliy
and strangely retieent on the SUBJECT
of a future life.
A perusal OF these win show that
Reed s work is very clever piece OF
literary cabinet making. He has for
gotten. however, that condolences are
not facts-positive but merely facts
relative. The contemporary writers of
shakespeare and Bacon are heavily
charged with similar condolences. 1t