The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

Delia Bacon's book is a famous work that challenges the conventional attribution of Shakespeare's plays to William Shakespeare. In this book, Bacon instead asserts that the plays were written by social reformers such as Francis Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh. Although this theory was controversial at the time, it earned Bacon a following of prominent authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who praised her as «America's greatest literary producer of the past ten years» after her death. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespearean scholarship and the controversies surrounding the authorship of his plays.