literature of the Bacon-Shakespeare debate and kindred speculation runs to many hundreds of volumes in various languages, and a multitude of articles in periodicals. In addition to the pro-Baconian and other works above cited may be named:— Delia Bacon, The Philosophy of the Plays of S. unfolded (1857, anti-S. but not definitely Baconian) ; The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies by Francis Bacon, edited by Mrs. Henry Pott (1883, from previously unpublished mss.) ; W. H. Wyman, Bibliography of the Bacon-S. Controversy (Cincinnati, 1884, 255 entries) ; R. M. Theobald, S. Studies in Baconian Light (rep. 1901) ; G. C. Bompas, The Problem of the S. Plays (1902) ; Edwin Borman, Francis Bacon's Cryptic Rhymes, and the Truth they Reveal (1906) ; Sir E. Durning-Lawrence, Bt., Bacon is S. (1910) ; H. C. Batchelor, Francis Bacon wrote S. (1912) ; W. T. Smedley, The Mystery of Francis Bacon (1912) ; Parker Woodward, Sir Francis Bacon, Poet-Philosopher-Statesman Lawyer-Wit (1920) ; E. W. Smithson, Baconian Essays with introd. and two essays by Sir G. G. Greenwood (1922). The last named
writer has produced several "anti-Stratfordian" but non-Baconian works, of which the chief are The S. Problem Restated (1908) and Is there a Shakespeare Problem? (1916).
Among anti-Baconian works may be named:—William S. not an Impostor, By an English Critic (J. G. H. Townsend, 1857)—the first rejoinder in book form ; T. D. King, Bacon versus S., a Plea for the Defendant (1875) ; Mrs. C. C. Stopes, The Bacon-S. Question (rev. ed., 1889) ; E. Marriott, Bacon or S., An Historical Enquiry (1879) ; L. Schipper, S. and dessen Gegner (Munster, 1895) ; W. C. Devecmon, of the Maryland bar, In re S.'s "Legal Acquirements" (5899) ; Judge Willis, The S.-Bacon Controversy (1902), and The Baconian Mint (1903) ; Charles Crawford, The Bacon-S. Question, in 2nd series of his Collectanea (19o7); Dean Beeching, William S., Player, Playmaker and Poet: A Reply to Mr. George Greenwood (1908) ; Andrew Lang, S., Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912) ; J. M. Robertson, The Baconian Heresy, a confutation (1913).
(J. M. R.)