The Shakespeare symphony, an introduction to the ethics of the Elizabethan drama:
by Harold Bayley.
- London, Chapman and Hall, 1906.
- ix, 393 p. 23 cm.
"I do not maintain that Bacon was the concealed author of all the plays from which I have quoted extracts; but for many of them he will I believe ultimately be found to have been responsible; and for others his disciples could probably have rendered some account."--p. 355.
London's Parnassus.--The sweetness and gravity of the dramatic mind.--The state of learning.--Ecclesiasticism.--Religion.--Educational purpose.--Medicine and physiology.--Elizabethan audiences.--Classicisms.--The wordmakers.--Problematic manuscripts.--Miscellaneous similitudes.--Error, wit, and metaphor.--Traits and idiosyncrasies.--Conclusion.--Appendices.