Volume 93 — The Shakspearian Question.
Reading edition
An Actor's opinion on the Bacon v. Shakspeare controversy, expressed in a strictly professional cryptogrammatic style.
"Shakspeare written by a chap called Bacon, my boy? Very likely; I always found 'lots of fat' in it."
Another (at Brighton, by an Ancient Mariner who sticks to the "Old Ship").
"Bacon wrote Shakspeare? Well, perhaps he did. He was a clever chap, was dear old Arthur Bacon; but still, somehow, I don't think he wrote Shakspeare. At least not all of it."
INTERIORS AND EXTERIORS. No. 54.
