Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 12, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 44.

Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?

Still another author adds his evidence to the mass, that Shakespeare never wrote one of his plays, but that they were written by Sir Francis Bacon. This author, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, in analyzing old book-plates and first-folio spelling, shows that Shakespeare was a poor, ignorant attaché of the theater, too ignorant to write, whose name Bacon borrowed and used in order to save himself from prosecution, and yet has left evidence in his writings that would prove to future generations that it was Bacon who wrote what was supposed to have been written by Shakespeare. And he seems to have fairly good arguments for it. Thus it is that the world’s idols crumble.