Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown

by Andrew Lang

Transcribed from the 1912 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

SHAKESPEARE
BACON
AND THE GREAT UNKNOWN

BY
ANDREW LANG

WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1912

All rights reserved

TO
HORACE HOWARD FURNESS
IN MEMORY OF AN
OLD PROMISE

PREFACE

It is with some hesitation that I give my husband’s last book to the world. It was in type when he died, but he had no time to correct even the first proofs, and doubtless he would have made many changes, if not in his views at least in his expression of them. Mr. Bartram has verified the quotations and dates with infinite care, and for this he has my warmest thanks. For the rest I can but ask those who differ from the author to remember the circumstances in which the work has been published.