Bacon Is Shake-Speare; Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: J. McBride Co. Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. The so-called "Signatures." In Plate 14, Page 36, are shewn the five so-called signatures. These five being the only pieces of writing in the world that can, even by the most ardent Stratfordians, be supposed to have been written by Shakspeare's pen; let us consider them carefully. The Will commences " In the name of God Amen I Willim Shackspeare." It is written upon three sheets of paper and each sheet bears a supposed signature. The Will is dated in Latin " Vicesimo quinto die Januarij] Mtij Anno Regni Dni nri Jacobi, nunc R Anglic,