(FRANCIS TUDOR)
A criticism upon the
Shaksper and Cervantes Festivals
By
Alfred von Weber-Ebenhoff
(Translated into English by Arthur B. Cornwall)
Anzengruber Publishing House, Suschitzky Brothers
Leipzig-Vienna 1917
CONTENTS
Preface 1 Contents III-V Index of Illustrations VI-IX Bacon-Shakespeare Foreword 5 PART I Lord Francis Bacon of Verulam, the real
"Shake-speare"(Spearshaker), his Personality, his
Philosophical and Pseudonymous Poetical Works 11 PART II The Spread and Effect of the Philosophy and Poetic
Writings of Francis Bacon-Shakespeare in England, France and
Germany 63 PART III The Shakespeare Inquiry on Baconian lines in contrast
with the methods of the Stratford Myth 125 PART IV Friedrich Nietzsche and the
Shakespeare Inquiry on Baconian lines 135 PART V The Outcome of the Shakespeare Celebrations 145 A. General Introduction 145 B. The Shakespeare Celebration in England 1.The Festivities in London 149 C. The Shakespeare Celebration in America 170 D. The Shakespeare Celebration in Germany 171 Cervantes and the Cervantes
Celebrations Preface 178 PART VI Cervantes and the Cervantes Celebrations 179 A. Introduction 179 B. The Esteem for the Novel "Don Quixote 182 C. The Life of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 185 D. Intimations as to the Person of the Author of "Don
Quixote 194 219 F. Allusions to Bacon in the Text of "Don Quixote" 243 G. Bacon-Shakespeare, the concealed greatest Poet of his
Time, recognized through the lifted mask of Don Quixote 262 H. The Foolish Knight with the Lance is No one else than
the "Spear-shaker" (Bacon-Shake-speare) in Fool's Garb 280 I. The Portraits of Cervantes 331 K. The "Galatea" of Cervantes 336 L. The "Novelas Exemplares" 348 M. The Cervantes Celebrations and the Future of the
Cervantes Inquiry 366 A Final View and the Founding of the
Society for Bacon-Shakespeare Inquiry PART VII A Final View. Bacon-Shakespeare-Cervantes. Bacon's
(Burton's) "Anatomy of Melancholy" 371 PART VIII Founding of an Austrian Society for Shakespearean Inquiry
on Baconian Lines 379 APPENDIX A. Reply to the Article "Shakespeare and Germany"
by the university professor Dr. Alexander von Weilen (New
Free Press, April 26, 1914) 389 B. Reply to the Article "Jubilees" of Max Nordau (Pester
Lloyd, April 16, 1916) 392 C. Observations upon a Lecture delivered on November 16,
1916 in the Club of German writers in Austria by the editor
and writer in Austria and writer Adolf Gelber upon "Pericles
of Tyre"(Published in the "Austrian Illustrated Chronicle",
vol 15, 1916) 397 D. An Informative Theatre Program for Shakespeare's
"Winter's Tale", as it ougtht not to be.(Printed in the
"Austrian Illustrated Chronicle", vol 16, 1917) 403 E. "The Taming of the Shrew" Its Re-Staging at the German
People's Theatre in 1917. (Printed in the "Austrian
Illustrated Chronicle", 1917) 406 F. Shakespearean Lecture by Alfred von Weber ( Printed in
"Austrian Illustrated Chronicle", vol 34, 1917) 413 Index of Names and Events
2. The Festiviities in Stratford
151