Is Shakespeare Dead?

Коллекция текстов · essay

Chapter I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, cer…
Chapter II
When I was a Sunday-school scholar something more than sixty years ago, I became interested in Satan, and wanted to find out all I could ab…
Chapter III
How curious and interesting is the parallel—as far as poverty of biographical details is concerned—between Satan and Shakespeare. It is won…
Chapter Iv—Conjectures
The historians “suppose” that Shakespeare attended the Free School in Stratford from the time he was seven years old till he was thirteen.…
CHAPTER V—“We May Assume”
In the Assuming trade three separate and independent cults are transacting business. Two of these cults are known as the Shakespearites and…
Chapter VI
When Shakespeare died, in 1616, great literary productions attributed to him as author had been before the London world and in high favor f…
Chapter VII
If I had under my superintendence a controversy appointed to decide whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare or not, I believe I would place b…
CHAPTER VIII—Shakespeare as a Lawyer (1)
The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare supply ample evidence that their author not only had a very extensive and accurate knowledge of law, but…
CHAPTER VIII—Shakespeare as a Lawyer (2)
Here it may, perhaps, be worth while to quote again from Lord Penzance’s book as to the suggestion that Shakespeare had somehow or other ma…
Chapter IX
Did Francis Bacon write Shakespeare’s Works? Nobody knows. We cannot say we know a thing when that thing has not been proved. Know is too s…
CHAPTER X—The Rest of the Equipment
The author of the Plays was equipped, beyond every other man of his time, with wisdom, erudition, imagination, capaciousness of mind, grace…
Chapter XI · Chapter XII—Irreverence
Chapter XI Am I trying to convince anybody that Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare’s Works? Ah, now, what do you take me for? Would I be…
Chapter XIII
Isn’t it odd, when you think of it: that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to…