Word: baconiana
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling to lend his name to the immortal works of lordly Francis Bacon...
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