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NOTES
1. The first Dual Theory was perhaps that advanced, none too seriously, by
the anonymous author of An Essay against too much Reading, published in
London in 1728. The author, who may have been Capt. Goulding, said that
he would give the public 'a short account of Mr. Shakespeare's proceeding, and
that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance [which may be doubted]. His
being perfect in some things was owing to his not being a scholar, which obliged
him to have one of those chuckle-pated historians for his particular associate,
that could scarce speak a word but upon that subject . . . Shakespeare . . . was
no scholar . . . no historian . . . Although his plays were historical . . . the his-
tory part was given him . . . by one of those chuckles that could give him nothing
else.'
2. Chambers's Biographical Dictionary. Compare William McFee: 'Some-
times the [Baconian] revelation took the form of religious ecstasy. Delia Bacon,
an American girl [she was 42 when she first visited England] of good family but
no relation to the author of Novum Organum, obtained permission from the
Vicar of Stratford to spend the night in the sacred edifice where the playwright's
bones were buried. The result of her hallucinations was the notion that the
plays were written by Lord Bacon and several other Elizabethans. The curious
will find a fascinating picture of this excellent but unbalanced lady in Nathaniel Hawthorne's
essay in Our Old Home, which he calls "Recollections of a Gifted
Woman"' ( Introduction to Looney, pp. xv-xvi).
3. By the Rev. T. Carter, Shakespeare: Puritan and Recusant ( 1897). The
statement that he 'died a Papist' was first made by the Rev. Richard Davies in
1685. 'That this was the local tradition in the latter part of the seventeenth
century does not admit of rational question' ( Halliwell-Phillipps, Outline of the
Life of Shakespeare, Vol. I, p. 264). See also John Henry de Groot, The Shake-
speares and 'the Old Faith' ( New York, 1946) and articles in the Month by Fr.
Herbert Thurston ( May 1882 and November 1911) and J. H. Pollen ( October-
November 1917).

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