Essays (Shakespeare)

Essays (Shakespeare)

“The essential form of knowledge… is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being
and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”
Francis Bacon: Cupid and Coelum, On Principles and Origins
The essays are authored by Peter Dawkins unless otherwise stated.
  • Shakespeare Authorship Questions
    Shakespeare questions concerning the authorship of the Shakespeare works.
  • The Stratford Shakespeare Monument
    The symbolism, mystery and secret message of the Shakespeare Monument in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
  • Thus leaning on my elbow
    An insight into the revelatory nature of the soliloquy spoken by the Bastard in Shakespeare’s history play, The Life and Death of King John.
  • The Philosopher and Secret Poet
    This 1645 frontispiece shows Francis Bacon as a philosopher and poet-dramatist, and how poetry builds the temple of moral philosophy and science.
  • Knights of the Helmet & Comedy of Errors
    An account of the Gray’s Inn 1594/5 Christmas Revels, the ‘Gesta Grayorum’, at which ‘The Honourable Order of the Knights of the Helmet’ and ‘The Comedy of Errors’ were performed.
  • What's in a Name?
    Meanings of the names and unusual titles given to Sir Francis Bacon, and their connection with Shakespeare, Freemasonry and the Rosicrucians.
  • The Good Name
    The meaning and importance of a good name.
  • The Name William Shakespeare
    The original use, meaning and various spellings of Shakespeare’s name.
  • Labeo is Shakespeare is Bacon
    Francis Bacon revealed by the Elizabethan poets Hall and Marston as the true author of the Shakespeare poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘Lucrece’.
  • Francis Bacon, Shakespeare & the Earl of Essex
    A historical sketch of Francis Bacon’s association with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, the Shakespeare Circle, the Essex Rebellion and Essex’s Trial.
  • The Shake-scene
    Robert Greene's allusion to Shakespeare and the Shakespeare studio of poets in his ‘Greene’s Groats-worth of Witte’.
  • The Shakespeare Circle
    The patrons, poets, writers and intelligencers who comprised the Shakespeare Circle led by Francis Bacon, their Apollo and Spear-shaker.
  • The Shakespeare Gemini Headpieces
    The Gemini headpieces to the Shakespeare works—the Poems, Sonnets and Plays—revealing their underlying meaning, purpose and authorship.
  • Beauty, Truth and the Gemini
    The core theme of the Gemini, Truth and Beauty, in Shakespeare.
  • The Northumberland Manuscript
    A collection of 16th century manuscripts predating 1597 that once contained the manuscripts of two Shakespeare plays together with writings by Francis Bacon.
  • Shakespeare identified as pi
    The number and principle which squares the circle - by N D van Egmond, Utrecht University.
  • Bacon-Shakespeare Timeline
    Chart of the dates of the Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare literary works together with key dates in Bacon’s life.
  • Following the Footsteps of Nature
    An account of what Francis Bacon really said about nature, and a refutation of what has been said by those who have misunderstood and disparaged him - by Jill Line.
  • Fishers Folly & Edward de Vere
    Fisher’s Folly, Bishopsgate, London, and its connection with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and Anne Cornwallis’ commonplace-book of poems.
  • The 1623 Revelation of the Baconian-Rosicrucian Great Instauration
    The significance of the twinning of the 1623 publications: the Shakespeare First Folio and Francis Bacon’s De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum.