Bacon and Shakespeare

  • A Phoenix explores Francis Bacon, His Secret Royal Birth, Authorship of the Shakespeare works and his Rosicrucian-Freemasonry Brotherhood, as well as other hidden secret aspects of his life and writings.
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  • The Shakespearean Authorship Trust explores different arguments for the most prominent authorship candidates including Francis Bacon
  • The Shakespeare Authorship Coalition is dedicated to legitimising the Shakespeare authorship issue by increasing awareness of reasonable doubt about the identity of William Shakespeare
  • Lawrence Gerald’s sirbacon.org features an enormous amount of Baconian information and opinion
  • The Francis Bacon Research Trust – lots of material from a contemporary esoteric perspective
  • Manly P. Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages is available to read online, featuring a chapter on the Bacon/Shakespeare question and information on subjects such as the Qabbala, Alchemy, Tarot, Ceremonial Magic, Neo-Platonic Philosophy, Mystery Religions, and the theory of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry.
  • www.light-of-truth.com – extremely unusual site of interest to fans of numerological cipher and the authorship question
  • Bacon Is Shakespeare – a blog focusing on the authorship question
  • Dr Barry R Clarke is a scholar and researcher whose website contains among other things a PhD thesis about Francis Bacon’s possible contributions to three Shakespeare Plays
  • Petter Amundsen is a Norweigan amateur historic cryptographer who has produced two books and five documentary films on the subjects of Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, and Oak Island
  • The Wikipedia page on the subject of the Authorship Question is a useful introduction to the topic, although content is generated and edited by the public so accuracy and sources are not always verified
  • Internet Archive - a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 538 billion archived web pages.

Primary texts

  • Project Gutenberg the original comprehensive source of e-texts on the Internet
  • Hanover College contains another useful selection of early modern texts
  • Senate House Library the main library of the University of London, is the home of the Durning-Lawrence library (bequeathed by the well-known Baconian Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence) and contains most of the Francis Bacon Society Library on deposit.
  • The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. contains ‘the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works’. As well as providing information about the library, Folger’s site also contains the HAMNET online catalogue
  • The Huntingdon Library in California has an online catalogue of its titles, which includes many Baconian publications. Click the link above and search ‘Bacon’ or ‘Baconian’ for a list of titles.
  • The Oxford Francis Bacon project is currently compiling a new 15-volume critical edition of Bacon’s complete works. Six of the fifteen have been published so far.
  • Luminarium.org contains a good listing of major Bacon works available. This site features an outstanding selection of renaissance and early modern texts, and contextual information.

Shakespeare

  • ‘No Sweat Shakespeare‘ provides various resources like plot summaries and essays on every Shakespeare play.