Word: baconianism
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...Kitty's" supreme contempt, however, is reserved for proponents of the Baconian theory. Once at a Yale dinner he listened to a clever speaker "prove" that Shakespeare's plays could have been written by no one but Sir Francis Bacon. At the end "Kitty" arose, picked up the menu, gravely announced: "Gentlemen, I shall now prove that this menu was written by John Keats...
From cubbyhole on Boylston Street to soap box on Boston Common is the latest excursion of Philip Francis Samuels, Baconian scholar extraordinary, author and vendor of "Man vs. Ape in the Play Earco Rammed"--or positive proof that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
Friends of the Baconian point with pride to his ramblings of the last twelve months, the course of which is known to but few. These last regard the scholar as a personification of the Conant concept of "roving professor...
...biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed...
...pair of bushy eyebrows, "I'll give the University five hundred copies of my book--I guess five hundred would be enough--and if the University wants it can form a committee to sell the books at $1.50 a copy, proceeds to go towards founding a Baconian class at Harvard." He lowered his finger a trifle. "Then we shall sell whether there is anything...