The Baconian Mint PDF Download

Author: William Willis
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ISBN: 9781332535156
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Excerpt from The Baconian Mint: Its Claims Examined: Being a Supplement to an Address Delivered in the Hall of the Society, May 29th, 1902 When an announcement was made, that I intended to deliver an address, on "the Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy," in the Inner Temple Hall, May 29th, 1902, I received several letters asking me, if I had become acquainted with the "Baconian Mint," and also with the fact, that numerous words, coined by Lord Bacon, were to be found in the folio copy of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623: that the contribution of such words, was so great, as to leave no doubt, that Lord Bacon wrote a very large portion of the plays which pass under the name of "Shakespeare." Some of my correspondents were men of education, and some were members of my own profession. I felt sorry for them, because they seemed to have no power to think for themselves, and had apparently fallen victims to the "phrases" of Mr. Theobald. Mr. Theobald, in his "Shakespeare Studies in Baconian Light," devotes a hundred pages to what he calls "the classic Diction of Shakespeare." He endeavours to show that the vocabulary of the Author of the Plays was in the highest degree classic: that he was constantly making linguistic experiments, and endeavouring to enrich his native language, by coining new words derived, chiefly, from the Latin. Mr. Theobald says that such words could not be coined by the man who was educated at the Grammar School of Stratford-upon-Avon: that the man who coined these words was none other than Lord Bacon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.