An Authorship Analysis
Francis Bacon as Shake-speare

0	Cogency		What's New?
	0.0	Reason, Fallacy, and Proof
		0.0.0	Essays: Of Truth
		0.0.1	Novum Organum: Preface
		0.0.2	Novum Organum: Book I, Aphorisms 1-68
	0.1	Authorship Ascription
		0.1.0	Venus & Adonis: "Art thou obdurate, flintie...?"
		0.1.1	Certaine Satyres: The Authour in prayse of his precedent Poem.
		0.1.2	Bacon Family Motto: "Mediocria Firma"
		0.1.3	Venus & Adonis: "honors wracke"
		0.1.4	Certaine Satyres: REACTIO.
		0.1.5	Virgidemiarvm: Lib. II, Sat. I.
		0.1.6	Additional Virgidemiarvm "Labeo" passages
1	Intent
	1.0	Advancement of Humanity
		1.0.0	Of the Interpretation of Nature: Proem
		1.0.1	Letter: "to bring about the better ordering of man's life"
		1.0.2	Letter: "my writings should not court the present time"
		1.0.3	A Choice of Emblemes: Scripta manent
		1.0.4	Essays: Of Great Place
		1.0.5	The Life of The Right Honourable Francis Bacon
		1.0.6	Francis Bacon: Viscount St. Alban
	1.1	Pandemic
		1.1.0	Comments on Variation of Design
		1.1.1	Letter: "I have taken all knowledge to be my province"
		1.1.2	Meditationes Sacrae: Of the Innocency of the Dove
2	Poesy
	2.0	Education
		2.0.0	Wisdom of the Ancients: Preface
		2.0.1	Wisdom of the Ancients: Orpheus; or Philosophy
		2.0.2	Advancement of Learning: History, Poesy, Philosophy (2:1)
		2.0.3	Advancement of Learning: Poesy (2:13)
		2.0.4	Advancement of Learning: Appendices of the Art of Transmission (6:4)
	2.1	Drama
		2.1.0	Gesta Grayorum Introduction: "contribution to the Gray's Inn revels"
		2.1.1	Gesta Grayorum: The Prince's Council
		2.1.2	Of Tribute: Praise of Knowledge
		2.1.3	Love and Self-love
		2.1.4	Masque of Flowers: Dedication
		2.1.5	Masque of the Inner Temple: Dedication
		2.1.6	Letter: "joint masque from the four Inns of Court"
		2.1.7	Essays: Of Masques and Triumphs
	2.2	Attribution
		2.2.0	Poems of Edmund Waller: Dedication
		2.2.1	Scourge of Folly: Sr Francis Bacon
		2.2.2	Manes Verulamiani
		2.2.3	Minerva Brittana: Sir Francis Bacon
3	Concealment
	3.0	Necessity
		3.0.0	Essays: Of Simulation and Dissimulation
		3.0.1	Letter: "be good to concealed poets"
		3.0.2	Letter: "I think the greatest inquisitor in Spain will allow it"
		3.0.3	Letter: "I will not publish while I live"
		3.0.4	Letter: "communicate them to others according to your discretion"
		3.0.5	Emperor of the East Dedication: "feare to bee censur'd"
	3.1	Pseudonymity
		3.1.0	Valerius Terminus Preface: "the supposed author"
		3.1.1	Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature
		3.1.2	Contents page images
		3.1.3	Back cover note
	3.2	Ghostwriting
		3.2.0	Of Tribute Introduction: "my Lord of Essex his device"
		3.2.1	Love and Self-love Introduction: "My Lord of Essex's device"
		3.2.2	Letter: "Your Majesty's ... servant, Essex"
		3.2.3	Letter: "as in the name of Mr. Anthony Bacon"
		3.2.4	Letter: "framed as from the Earl"
		3.2.5	Sir Francis Bacon His Apologie
		3.2.6	Letter: "Your loving Friend, Francis Walsingham"
	3.3	Attribution
		3.3.0	To True Nobility
		3.3.2	Letter: "your poetical example"
	3.4	Steganography
		3.4.0	Early Cryptology
		3.4.1	Baconiana: A False Dated Book
		3.4.2	Advancement of Learning: Knowledge of Cyphers
		3.4.3	Letter: "works of the Alphabet"
4	Players
	4.0	Shakspere
		4.0.0	Documentation Detail
		4.0.1	Documentation Summary by Year
		4.0.2	Documentation Summary by Category
		4.0.3	Last Will and Testament
	4.1	Jonson
		4.1.0	Timber: or, Discoveries: Dominus Verulanus
		4.1.1	Timber: or, Discoveries: De Shake-speare nostrat
		4.1.2	Every Man Out Of His Humour extracts
		4.1.3	Poetaster extracts
		4.1.4	Every Man In His Humour extract
		4.1.5	Seianvs his Fall extracts
		4.1.6	Under-Woods: Lord Bacon's Birth-day
	4.2	Shake-speare
		4.2.0	Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies Frontmatter
		4.2.1	Shake-speares Sonnets

Paul J. Dupuy, Jr.
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