The Shakespeare symphony, an introduction to the ethics of the Elizabethan drama - Bayley, Harold (London, Chapman and Hall, 1906)
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.
"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.
Keywords: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Ethics; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Authorship -- Baconian theory; Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626 -- Authorship; Religion in literature; Ethics in literature