APPLETON MORGAN.

October, 1881.

CONTENTS

[ PREFACE. ]

[ THE SHAKESPEAREAN MYTH. ]

[ PART I. THE MYSTERY. ]

[ PART II. THE APPEAL TO HISTORY. ]

[ PART III. THE JONSONIAN TESTIMONY. ]

[ PART IV. EXTRA SHAKESPEAREAN THEORIES: THE DELIA BACON THEORY. ]

[ PART V. THE BACONIAN THEORY. ]

[ PART VI. THE NEW THEORY—THE SONNETS—CONCLUSION. ]

[ INDEX ]