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...cover story (and six pages of color) on the Shakespeare boom goes beyond the three Stratfords (England, Ontario and Connecticut), for the great revival of the Bard is breaking out in print and libraries, on disk and stages the world over...
...first to set the Bacon thesis really sizzling was an Ohio-born schoolteacher named Delia Bacon, no kin. Bent on digging up the Bard, she invaded Holy Trinity Church, lantern in hand, one night in 1856, only to be appalled by the question of whether she should dig up Raleigh or Bacon instead. Unhinged by this quandary, she died hopelessly insane three years later. In 1888 Ignatius Donnelly, a onetime Congressman from Minnesota, uncorked the following numbers game: on page 53 of the histories in the first Folio he found the word Bacon ("I have a gammon of Bacon"), which...
...filled, encouraging the strange game of pseudoscholarship designed to show that Shakespeare did not really write the plays, that he was a front man for Sir Francis Bacon or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford,* or Christopher Marlowe or Sir Walter Raleigh or Queen Elizabeth or even the Bard's wife, Anne Hathaway. Amateur cryptographers have thought they found hidden codes in Shakespeare's writing, pointing to the true authors...
When the London theaters reopened in 1660, after having been shuttered by the Puritans for 18 years, the Restoration decided that Shakespeare needed rewriting. Taking its cue from Ben Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature whose war bled woodnotes wild violated the Aristotelian unities of time, place and action. His plots were a confusing mishmash of the tragic and comic. He was vulgar. Samuel Pepys confided to his diary that Hamlet "disgusts this refined age." Dryden called him "divine Shakespeare," but added smugly: "I have...
Victorian prudery nice-Nellified 19th century Shakespeare. In 1818 Thomas Bowdler, a retired physician, blue-penciled what he regarded as the Bard's blue lines and produced a Shakespeare without blushes for the family reading hour-doubtless pleasing that Victorian matron who emerged from a performance of Antony and Cleopatra saying, "How strangely different from the home life of our dear Queen." In the U.S. Shakespeare was so passionately popular that a dispute between the fans of rival actors-William Charles Macready and Edwin Forrest led to New York