Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown

by Andrew Lang

[280a] Sixty pages in Spedding’s Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, vol. i. pp. 146–208.

[281a] See his statement (1603), Spedding, iii. pp. 84–87.

[281b] Ibid., iii. p. 253.

[282a] The Shakespeare Problem Restated, pp. 371–406.

[282b] The Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy, p. 198.

[283a] The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 391.

[283b] Ibid., pp. 408–410.

[284a] The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 425.

[284b] Ibid., p. 431.

[287a] Sufflamen is the “drag” or “brake.” Ben’s, “it was necessary he should be stopped,” is an incorrect translation.