SHAKESPEARE-SECRET

BY

EDWIN BORMANN

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY

HARRY BRETT

LONDON

THWOHLLEBEN

45.GREAT RUSSELL STREET W.C.

LEIPZIG

EDWIN BORMANN'S SELBSTVERLAG

1895

Translators Preface	xi
Author's Preface	xv
I. THE HIGHEST POESY The great silence Poesy as a chief part of learning The classification of poesy Does dramatic-poesy really exist?	1 4 4 7
II. SHAKESPEARE'S 'THE TEMPEST' a dramatic parable in the sense of Bacon's Natural Philosophy
1. Pretergenerations	9
2. The relationship to the other parts of the"Great Instauration	12
3. 'The Tempest' and 'The History of the Winds'	16
4. The Summing-up of the foregoing	21
III. SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET a dramatic parable in the sense of Bacon's Anthropology
1. A matter of the highest importance	23
2. The spirit-scenes of the first act	24
3. The four sub-sections of the science of Anthropology	47
4. The defects of medical science	56
5. Further Hamlet-Bacon Similiarities	75
6. Summary of that which has been found	85
IV. SHAKESPEARE'S  'KING LEAR' a dramatic parable in the sense of Bacon's doctrine of Negotiating, Business
1. The doctrine of Negociation a 'missing science'	94
2. Quotations from Francis Bacon's chapter on the doctrine of Negociation to elucidate the contents	95
3. The first scenes in the tragedy of 'King Lear,' with interpolation of quotations from Francis Bacon's chapter on the doctrine of Negcotiation	97
4. The summing-up of the foregoing	121
V. SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF 'LOVE'S  LABOUR'S LOST' a dramatic parable in the sense of Bacon's doctrine of Lighted Luminous Matter
1. The wealth of light in the comedy	125
2. The concordance of ideas between the comedy and Bacon's science of light	132
3. The summing-up	147
VI.THE BACON PARABOLISM OF THE REMAINING SHAKESPEARE DRAMAS
1. The arrangement of the Folio-Edition of the Shakespeare Dramas	149
2. The Bacon-Parables in the Shakespeare Comedies and Histories	152
3. The moral of the Shakespeare-Tragedies corresponds with Bacon's ethics as practice does with theory	175
VII. BACON'S HENRY THE SEVENTH a Supplement to the Shakespeare-Histories
1. The gap in the historical dramas	185
2. The concealed verse in "The Historie of King Henry the Seventh	186
3. The theatrical allusions in 'The Historie of King Henry the Seventh'	191
VIII. FRANCIS BACON  AND  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
1. The life of Francis Bacon	195
2. The writings of Francis Bacon which bear his name	202
3. The anonymous and pseudonymic writings of Francis Bacon	207
4. The great anonymous between 1591 and 1598	211
5. The cessation of anonymity and the appearance of the poet- 'William Shakespeare'	217
6. Shakespeare or Shakspere?	223
7. The issue of books of the Bacon-Shakespeare-Period	227
8. Mutual hints at each other A. Bacon hints at Shakespeare	229 229
9. Mutual hints at each other B.Shakespeare hints at Bacon	234 234
10. The external features of the Shakespeare-Folio-Edition of 1623	239
11. Bacon's literary Confidants : Rawley, Jonson and Matthews	247
IX. POETISED SCIENCE
1. A short Review of all hitherto discovered	256
2. The six Parts of the 'Great Instauration of Sciences'	260
A Final Word	266
A List of the Works chiefly referred to	274