Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown, page 188 by Andrew Lang
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to be held tight to grammar, Greene referred to some one unknown, some one who wrote for the stage, but had another profession. If Chettle is not to be thus tautly construed, I confess that to myself he seems to have had Shakspere, even Will, in his mind. For Will in 1592 had "a quality which he professed," that of an actor; and also (I conceive) was reported to have " facetious grace in writing." But other gentlemen may have combined these attributes; wherefore I lay no stress on the statements of Chettle, as if they referred to our Will Shakspere.
Footnotes:
{0a} E. J. Castle, Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson, and Greene, pp. 194- 195.
{0b} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 145.
{0c} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 340.
{0d} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, pp. 340, 341.
{0e} In Re Shakespeare, p. 54.
{0f} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 341.
{0g} Ibid., p. 470.
{0h} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 339.
{0i} The Vindicators of Shakespeare, pp. 115-116.
{0j} Ibid., p. 49.
{0k} The Vindicators of Shakespeare, p. 14.
{4a} Francis Bacon Wrote Shakespeare. By H. Crouch-Batchelor, 1912.
{7a} The Shakespere Problem Restated, p. 293.
{11a} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, pp. 31-37.
{13a} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, pp. 36-37.
{16a} Tue Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 20.
{17a} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, pp. 47-48.
{17b} Ibid., pp. 54-55.
{17c} Ibid., p. 54.
{17d} Ibid., p. 56.
{17e} Ibid., p. 59.
{17f} Ibid., p. 62.
{17g} Ibid., p. 193.
{18a} See his Vindicators of Shakespeare, p. 210.
{19a} Vindicators, p. 187.
{19b} The Shakespeare Problem Restated, p. 223.
{21a} In Re Shakespeare, p. 54.
{22a} In a brief note of two pages (Cornhill Magazine, November 1911) he makes such reply as the space permits to a paper of my own, "Shakespeare or X?" in the Septembe