WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

By Appleton Morgan

Author Of "The Law Of Literature," "Notes To Best's Principles Of Evidence," Etc., Etc

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Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves;

Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves;

Sic vos non vobis melliflcatus apes;

Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.

—P. Virgil. Maro

Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co 1881

TO D. T. MORGAN, ESQ.,

OF WHIP'S CROSS, WALTHAMSTOW, ESSEX, ENGLAND.

My Dear Sir:

I do not know your opinion on the matter treated in these pages. Very possibly you will disagree with every line of my Brief. But it gives me pleasure to connect my name with yours on this page, and to subscribe myself

Very faithfully, your kinsman,

APPLETON MORGAN.

October, 1881.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE SHAKESPEAREAN MYTH.

PART I. THE MYSTERY.

PART II. THE APPEAL TO HISTORY.

PART III. THE JONSONIAN TESTIMONY.

PART IV. EXTRA SHAKESPEAREAN THEORIES: THE DELIA BACON THEORY.

PART V. THE BACONIAN THEORY.

PART VI. THE NEW THEORY—THE SONNETS—CONCLUSION.

INDEX