Shakespeare's Philosophy Unfolded

About the Book

Delia Bacon has been both credited with and blamed for having initiated the controversy over the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Her article in the esteemed "Putnam's Magazine" issue of January, 1856 was the first published assertion that the plays in The Folio were not written by William Shakespeare. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who encouraged her to expand her theories to book length. "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded" was the result. However, the book does not confront the authorship issue. Instead, as its title indicates, it is a search for the still unearthed philosophy concealed in the plays.

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