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The Case for Bacon:

Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
The wittiest entry into the fray

A Summary of Baconian Evidence
A more serious take

Francis Bacon
From Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars

Baconian Theory
Wikipedia article

Intriguing Discoveries:

The Northumberland Manuscript

The Venus & Adonis painting

Taking the Case farther:

"Bacon's Royal Parentage"
Summary of arguments that Bacon was the Queen's son

"Cervantes, England, and Don Quixote"
Argues that Bacon wrote Cervantes's works, too

An Oxfordian Rebuttal
From the Shakespeare Oxford Society

Major Baconian Sites:

The Francis Bacon Society

Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning

Bacon is Shakespeare

Shakespeare Authorship Information Centre

Life and Works:

Sir Francis Bacon
from Luminarium.org
A great source of Renaissance literature online

Francis Bacon
Wikipedia article

Sir Francis Bacon

"Hang-hog' is latin for bacon, I warrant you
Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor

· The earliest alternate author of choice: serious arguments in his favor began to appear in the 1850s
· Voluminous and brilliant author, best known for philosophical and scientific prose
· Published a complex cipher in 1623, the same year that the First Folio appeared. Baconians have spent astounding energy and ingenuity in combing the works of Shakespeare, Bacon, and other renaissance authors for coded messages from Bacon.