>>3434222 (lb)
In 1603, Bacon wrote to a friend of his, the poet, John Davies, who had gone north to meet the King:
"So desiring you to be good to concealed poets, I continue, yours very assured, Fr. Bacon."
"The wisdom displayed in Shakespeare was equal in profoundness to the great Lord Bacon's Novum Organum." -William Hazlitt
"Lord Bacon was the greatest genius that England, or perhaps any country, ever produced."Alexander Pope , 1741
"In Shakespeare's plays we have Thought, History, Exposition, Philosophy, all within the round of the poet. It is as if into a mind poetical in form there had been poured all the matter which existed in the mind of his contemporary Bacon. The only difference between him and Bacon sometimes is that Bacon writes an Essay and calls it his own, while Shakespeare writes a similar essay and puts it into the mouth of a Ulysses or a Polonius." orthodox Professor David Mason
"...The subjects which most engrossed the mind of Bacon, the opinions which he most strongly expressed, the ideas which he desired especially to inculcate, are those which are found chiefly pervading the plays. Those things which are explained in the prose works of Bacon are to be found repeated, or alluded to, or forming the basis of beautiful metaphors and similes, in the Plays. And the vocabulary of Bacon and Shakespeare is to a suprising degree the same." Constance Pott
"Two things were strenuously avoided by Bacon; the direct mention of the name of Shakespeare, and the literal quotation of any passages from the Plays. This man of genius, coming forward in the essays as commentator on his own works, always clothed his elucidations in words other than those he chose as the poet& as Shakespeare. The poet clothes the thoughts of the philosopher in gorgeous robes: the language of the scholar must be plainer in style, the pictures he draws must be simpler and yet in spite of all, not only in the thoughts, but in the wording and manner of expressing himself, Bacon could not avoid telling us a great deal that carries the mind back to the Plays." EMB, The Day Star Of The Muses, essay in Baconiana 1968
"Directly as men were aware that the main purpose of the published plays was not so much to entertain them as to put them to school, the New Method was certain to become a failure. Long and patient trial of the system could alone attain success. To disclose the author was to reveal the schoolmaster, whose work would be resented as an impertinence by those for whom it was most fit."Parker Woodward (Baconiana, Oct. 1905):
"Without a mask, Bacon's plan for his Instauratio Magna would not have been possible; William Shakespeare was a necessary feature in the vast scheme of Bacon's philosophic experiment which had the world for its theatre, ages for its accomplishment, and posterity for its beneficiaries."Introduction to facsimile of Manes Verulamiani, by W.G.C. Gundry, Barrister-at-Law (Chiswick Press, London 1956).
A comparison of the writings of contemporary authors in prose and verse, proves that no other writer of that age, but Bacon, can come into any competition for the authorship. Judge Nathaniel Holmes 1884
Bacon's style varied almost as much as his handwriting; but it was influenced more by the subject matter than by youth or old age. Few men have shown equal versatility in adapting their language to the slightest shade of circumstance and purpose. Dr. Edwin Abbott
There are far more allusions to the stage and acting in Bacon's works than there are in Shakespeare. R. Eagle,, New Views for Old,1930
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/evidence.htm