Columbus discovered the continent we call after the name of another. Where shall we find written the names of the genii whose fruit and fame this Shakespeare has stolen. Having lost "our Shakespeare" both to-day and forever, it will doubtless remain—as it is—the question, "Who wrote the Shakespearean dramas?" The evidence is all in—the testimony is all taken. Perhaps it is a secret that even Time will never tell, that is hidden deep down in the crypt and sacristy of the Past, whose seal shall never more be broken. In the wise land of China it is said that when a man has deserved well of the state, his countrymen honor, with houses and lands and gifts and decorations, not himself, but his father and his mother. Perhaps, learning a lesson from the Celestials; we might rear a shaft to the fathers and the mothers of the Immortality that wrote the Book of Nature, the mighty book which "age can not wither, nor custom stale" and whose infinite variety for three centuries has been and, until Time shall be no more, will be close to the hearts of every age and cycle of men—household words for ever and ever, The Book—thank heaven!—that nothing can divorce from us.
THE END.
INDEX
A.
Actors, names of Shakespeare, printed by mistake in first folio, [314].
Actors, fellows of W. S. Did they suspect imposition?, [037].
Of Shakespeare's day, expected to improvise, [260].
Actresses, none in Shakespeare's day, [273].
Addison, Joseph, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, [026].
Alterations of the plays in 1st folio. See Emendations.
Althea, classical error as to, [210].
Angling, knowledge of, displayed in plays, [228].
Anonymous authorship, [283].
Or pseudonymic, fashionable in those days, [176].
Anti-Shakespearean theories—
A compromise of, suggested, [300].
Theobald anticipates, [301].
Areopagitica, Milton's, first asserted author's rights, [108].
Aristotle, Bacon and Shakespeare misquote passage of, [241].
Arms, John Shakespeare's, purchased by his son, [097].
Coat of, "cut from whole cloth", [274].
Obtained by falsehood, [274], [275], note.
Protest against them, [274], note.
Purchased with Shakespeare's first earnings, [274].
Why Shakespeare purchased, [274].
Article in Chambers' Journal first raises authorship question, [185].
Aubrey, his testimony, [047], [069], [071].
Expert evidence of, [303], [304].
Audiences. See Plays.
Did not want scientific treatises, [229].
Formative days of, [263].
Not critical, [013].
The Shakespearean, [114], [259].
Author, his interest to be anonymous, [113].
Eights, what were, [108].
Compensation, how obtained, [108].
Author of the plays. See Plays.
His fidelity to national characteristics, [042].
Insight of, into the human heart, no guess work, [043].
Of text, did not write stage business, [117].
Authorship of Henry VI., R. 0. White's idea of, [303].
Anonymous, [283].
Anonymous or pseudonymic authorship, prevalent, [176].
See Joint authorship.
Insecurity of. See Author, Copyright, Nashe, Printers, Plays.
Insecurity of authorship. See Star Chamber.
Autographs of W. S. See "Florio'" autograph.
B.
Bacon, and Shakespeare misquote passage of Aristotle, [241].
And Shakespeare, unknown to each other, [144].
Appears in New Theory, [284].
Believes in teaching history by drama, [242].
Could have appraised the S. Drama, [180].
Did William Shakespeare write works of, [038], [039].
Directs certain MS. locked up, [244].
Driven to "the Jews", [233]. See "Shylock."
His acquirements, [232].
His estimate of the theatre, [203].
His letter to the Queen, [237].
His "Northumberland MS.", [242].
His reasons for concealment, [201], [316].
His "Sonnet" what may be, [280], [281].
His youth compared with Shakespeare's, [232].
Last act of, his memorandum concerning, [297].
Letter to Sir John Davies, [236], [237].
May have brought together first folio, [236].
Neglected nothing, [297].
No cause to mourn for Elizabeth, [243].
Not mentioned to Shakespeare by Jonson, [145].
Bacon, often wrote in other's names, [243].
Or is he told of Shakespeare by, [145].
Possesses the qualities assigned to author of the dramas, [175].
Silent as to William Shakespeare, [180].
Surmised philosophical purpose, [203].
When appointed attorney-general plays cease to appear, [233].
Bacon, Delia, apparent audacity of announcement, [186].
Believed in a joint authorship, [206].
Believes "Hamlet" to be key-note of the plays, [190].
Claims to have discovered Bacon's clew, [192].
Death of, [200].
Estimate of her book, [196], note.
Extracts from her first paper, [189].
Her approach to an overt act, [197], [199].
Her belief as to the manuscripts, [193], [194].
Her poverty, [188], [195].
Her question as to the MS. answered, [244].
History of her theory, [188].
What it really was, [191].
Reception of her theory in America, [187].
In England, [187].
Supposed to be mad, [010], [011].
But her madness contageous, [011].
Visits Stratford, [174], [195].
Old Verulam, id.
What her madness was, [191], [300].
Writes her first paper in 1855, [186].
"Baconian" and "Delia Bacon" theories discriminated, [201].
Baconian theory, abstract of, [232].
Bibliography of the, [246].
Indifferent as to Wm. S. being a law student, [245].
In general, what, [203].
Preponderance for, [297].
Bailey, Rev. John, invents a new Shakespeare story, [160], note.
"Bartholomew Fair," induction to. See Jonson, Ben, [139].
Becker Death Mask, the, [103].
Bed, the second best, [050].
Not explained by R. Gr. White or by Steevens, [065].
"Beeston," author of "Schoolmaster story", [060].
"Beeston," who was he?, [160].
Belleforest, borrowed from in the plays, [221].
Berni, paraphrased by Iago, [064].
Best seats at theatres on the stage, [273].
Bible, Shakespeare and the, [060], note, [231].
Bibliography of the Baconian theory, [246].
"Biographies" of William Shakespeare, modern, [161].
De Quincy's, [157].
Birthday of W. S. See St. George's day.
Blackfriars Theater, James Burbage builds, [256].
Blood, circulation of the, [208], [210].
Boaden, James, his summary of the portraits, [093].
Boccaccio, borrowed from in the plays, [221].
Bohemia. See Sea-coast of Bohemia.
Book-making, knowledge of, displayed in plays. See Printing.
Botany, knowledge of, displayed in the plays. See Flowers.
Boucicault, Dion, a surmised example of what W. S. was, [031].
His suggestion, [285].
Answer to, [285].
Boys, took female parts in Shakespeare's day, [273].
Brother of W. S. See Oldys.
Brown C. Armitage, his discovery as to Sonnets, [278].
Brown, Henry, theory of the Sonnets, [279].
Bunyan, John, analogy of life to Shakespeare, [165], [166].
Illustrations of what genius can not do, [164].
Burbage, James, builds the Blackfriars theater, [256].
Burbage, Richard, lines interpolated in Hamlet to suit, [034], note.
Said to have painted portraits of W. S., [099].
Burns, Robert, an example of genius, [162].
Comparison between, and "Shakespeare", [219].
Illustration of what genius can not do, [163].
"Business" of Wm. Shakespeare, now obsolete, [298].
Bust in possession of Garrick Club, [105]. See Garrick Club Bust.
Bust, the Stratford, [097]. See Portraits.
Whitewashed, by Malone, [097].
Byron, Lord, his estimate of the Shakespearean plays, [019].
C.
Campbell, Lord, his notice of the legal acquirements of W. S. 059.
Canon of the plays, first folio plus Pericles, [291].
Capell, preserves specimens of Shakespeare's wit, [270].
Carlyle, Thomas, calls on Delia Bacon, [195].
Suggested her writing first paper, [195].
Cartwright, expert evidence as to, [303].
Testimony as to Shakespeare's acquirements, [264].
Catholic, Roman, was Shakespeare a, [117]. See Papist.
Chandos portrait, the, [097].
Rumored to have been by Burbage, [099].
Chatterton, Thomas, difference between his case and Shakespeare's, [054].
Chettle, wonders that Shakespeare does not mourn Elizabeth, [243].
His apology for Greene's expression, [125].
Christian Monastery in Ephesus in days of Pericles, [116].
Chronologies of the plays, absurdity of the so-called, [086].
"Chronologies," where they all agree, [041].
Cinthio, borrowed from in the plays, [221].
Circumstantial evidence, corroborated, [303], passim.
Necessary to these questions, [294].
Classical knowledge, displayed in plays, [207], [208].
Difficulties suggested by, [211].
Clergy, benefit of, [262], note.
Included all learned professions, id.
Clown, the principal actor in Shakespearean theaters, [260], [261].
Coat of arms, Shakespeare's. See Arms.
Cohn, Albert, his theory as to Shakespeare in Germany, [216].
Coincidences, Shakespearean's idea of the, [083], note.
Coleridge, his opinion as to authorship, [045].
Commentators, bore down upon the Shakespearean text, [010].
Commentary, sample of the run of, [086].
Compromise theory, [300]; applied to Henry VI., [302].
Theobald and others anticipate, [300], [301].
Condell, Henry. See Heminges & Condell.
Contemporaries of W. S., why they did not suspect him, or silent if they did, [057].
Contemporary statements in Baconian theory, [230].
Conversations of Ben Jonson with Drummond of Hawthorn-den, [139].
Copies, "true, original," identified, [312], [313], [314], [315].
Copyright, Disraeli thinks first folio a scheme for, [219], note.
First claimed 28 years after W. S.'s death, [108].
First English law of, [106]. See Author.
Cornelius, Jansen, said to have been family painter of Southampton, [101].
Court of Star Chamber, takes jurisdiction of matters literary, [106].
Curse of Stratford, [299], [300].
D.
Davies, Rev. Richard, his account of W. S., [073].
Davies, Sir John, letter from Bacon to, [237].
Davenant, Sir William, owned the Chandos portrait, [100].
Claimed illegitimate descent from W. S., [100], note.
Death mask, the Becker, [103].
Dedication of the Sonnets, [277].
Why insulting, [282].
Twisted out of shape, [277].
Simple explanation of, [278].
"Delia Bacon" and "Baconian" theories, discriminated, [201].
Delia Bacon and new theories coincide, [299].
See Bacon, Delia. Denham, expert evidence of, [303], [304].
Testimony as to Shakespeare's acquirements, [265].
De Quincy, Thomas, his "biography" of W. S., [157].
Analyzed, [157].
Ignores authorities, [159].
Deer stealing, "rejected on insufficient evidence", [114].
Difficulty is that we know so much about W. S., rather than so little, [155].
Digges, expert evidence of, [303], [304].
Testimony as to Skakesperean acquirements, [264].
"Discoveries" of Ben Jonson, fatal to Shakespearean theory, [134], [136].
Disraeli thinks first folio a scheme for copyright, [249], note.
Dogberry, prototypes of, [301].
Doubtful plays, the, [285], [286], [287].
Doubtful plays, tlie, never disowned by Shakespeare, [287].
Not doubtful in Shakespeare's day, [285], [290].
One missing, [290].
Dowdell Letter, the, [072].
Down, Edward, locates Proserpo's Island, [088], note.
Drama, esteemed by Bacon a form of teaching history, [242].
Droeshout portrait, [092], [094].
Not flattering to its subject, [093].
Only one ever "authenticated", [103].
Probably accurate likeness, [094].
Was faithfully engraved, [094].
Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's conversations with, [139].
Dryden, John, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, [021].
Dugdale, his mention of Shakespeare, [077].
"Duke Humphrey," a missing, doubtful play, [290].
Dyce follows Hallam, [302].
E.
Earlom portrait, the, [102].
Elaborations of the plays. See Emendations.
Elizabeth, Queen. See Queen Elizabeth.
Elizabeth, the English of, [208].
Elizabethan Dramatists, estimate of, [202].
Ellesmere, W. II. Smith's letter to, [187].
Elze, Dr. Carl, believes the S. was in Germany and Scotland, [221].
Emendations of the plays in first folio, extensiveness of, [234].
English, a then neglected accomplishment, [217].
A very rare accomplishment in Elizabeth's day, [041].
Probably not taught in Stratford grammar school, [041].
Purity of, used in plays, [218].
The, of Elizabeth, [207].
The, of Shakespeare, not derived from a study of contemporary writers, [042].
English Library, what was the, of Shakespeare's day, [230].
English renaissance drama. See Renaissance drama, English.
Enlargements of the plays in first folio. See Emendations.
Entomology, knowledge of, displayed in the plays, [227], [229].
Epitaph on Shakespeare's tomb, [124].
Epitaphs, by William Shakespeare, on Elias James, John â Coombe, and others, [040].
Epitaphs, how Halliwell accounts for, [270].
Of W. S. not claimed by anybody else, [231].
Complete collection of, [119].
Essex connected with plays, [284].
Evelyn, his estimate of Shakespearean plays, [020].
"Evening Mass," not necessarily indicative of Shakespeare's creed, [118].
Evidence, internal, failure of, [296].
Of historical plays as to Bacon, [242].
Poetry not competent of, a fact, [131].
See Typographical evidence, Printing.
Expert evidence as to the plays, [303].