Bayley, Harold.

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.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Ethics.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Authorship--Baconian theory.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 --Authorship.


English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Religion in literature.
Ethics in literature.

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