Delia and the Doubters
The American scholar Delia Bacon went mad in Stratford-Upon-Avon while writing her dense 1857 magnum opus, The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere [sic] Unfolded.
While Delia was the first scholar to devote her life's work to her doubts about Shakespeare, she was neither the first to doubt, nor the last — nor the most illustrious. Her book made a doubter of Mark Twain, among others.
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| Lost Plays | Manuscripts |
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Alternate Candidates | Delia and the Doubters | Occult Shakespeare | The Sonnets |
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Recommended Reading |
The
Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded (1857)
Delia's book online
"William
Shakespeare and His Plays; an Inquiry Concerning Them"
A shorter, clearer version of Delia's doubts about Shakespeare,
originally published in Putnam's Monthly in 1856 and
reprinted in her nephew's biography, pages 98-155
Hawthorne,
"Recollections of a Gifted Woman" (1883)
The author's memory of a troubled friend
Delia
Bacon, A Biographical Sketch (1888)
By Theodore Bacon (her nephew), whose idea of a "sketch"
was a 300+ page book
Delia
Bacon
Wikipedia article
Now this is a sketch!