Appleton Morgan, a New York lawyer, asks whether the butcher’s apprentice and actor from Stratford could have written the plays. He examines the historical record, Ben Jonson’s testimony, Delia Bacon’s theory and the Baconian case, then proposes his own. Modern scholarship overwhelmingly rejects these doubts, and the book is best read as a document of the authorship controversy.
A key text of the Victorian authorship debate, for those curious about how the anti-Stratfordian case was first argued. Download the free EPUB.