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Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Christina G. Waldman

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Description:Can the sixteenth-century Renaissance genius Francis Bacon be connected with "Bellario" in Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice"? Does Bellario provide clues as to who really wrote the play? You may be asking, "Who the heck is Bellario?" That is because he never appears on stage. He operates in the background. This book is the first book-length exploration of the role of the mysterious old Italian jurist whose canny legal advice guides Portia in the famous fictional trial of "Shylock v. Antonio." The Duke has summoned Bellario to court to advise him. However, because Bellario is too ill to “appear” in court, the brilliant Portia make the court appearance in his stead, acting as advisor to the Duke, assuming the name and identity of her male servant, Balthazar. In a book published in 1965 but written in 1935 ("Law v. Equity in 'The Merchant of Venice', a Legalization of Act IV, Scene I," (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965), Mark Edwin Andrews explained why he aligned Francis Bacon with Bellario in "The Merchant of Venice." In 1935, Andrews was a law student taking a summer Shakespeare course from his former Princeton professor, Duncan Spaeth (translator of "Beowulf") when he wrote the manuscript for his book. Andrews would later go on to serve as Assistance Secretary of the Navy under President Truman.Andrews based the connection he drew between Bacon and Bellario on the abundance of legal terms the playwright used accurately within the play, as well as on the uncanny parallel Andrews perceived between the legal case of "Shylock v. Antonio" and the role Bacon played twenty years later in the real life 1616 case of "Glanvill v. Courtney." In both cases, “law” was pitted against “equity,” in terms of courts fighting for jurisdiction (there was also the issue of the King's prerogative). Andrews claimed that the play must have influenced those important men--Bacon and Ellesmere--who persuaded King James to rule in favor of equity in "Glanvill." To be clear, Andrews was a professed "Stratfordian." That is, he professed to believe that William Shaxpere, the actor from Stratford, wrote the plays and poems attributed to "William Shakespeare," the name on the title page of the First Folio. This, however, left him at a loss to logically explain the uncanny sense--presence or influence--of Bacon within the play, which he did acknowledge (As to the significance of a "presence not seen but felt," one might care to read what Bacon himself said in his "Maxims of the Law," Regula 14.). Using online research tools such as the search functions of the HathiTrust and Open Source Shakespeare websites, Waldman explores, more deeply than Andrews could at the time, the function and purpose of Bellario within the play.Francis Bacon was an innovator and reformer, an original thinker and problem solver. The modern world owes much to his ideas. Because Bacon took “all knowledge to be his province” and his genius touched upon many areas, this book explores a wide range of topics, including law, history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, rhetoric and theology. The book looks at parallels between words said to be “coined by” Bacon and/or Shakespeare, and explores punning, which the Elizabethans considered to be an art form. The author is a lawyer who was convinced by seeing Andrews' book thirty-five years ago that, whoever Shakespeare was, he had to have been a lawyer. A prior version (81 pp.) of the material which became this book was published by the SirBacon website "Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning," on July 28, 2016.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. To get started finding Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 310

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Publisher: Algora Publishing

Release: 2018

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Description: Can the sixteenth-century Renaissance genius Francis Bacon be connected with "Bellario" in Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice"? Does Bellario provide clues as to who really wrote the play? You may be asking, "Who the heck is Bellario?" That is because he never appears on stage. He operates in the background. This book is the first book-length exploration of the role of the mysterious old Italian jurist whose canny legal advice guides Portia in the famous fictional trial of "Shylock v. Antonio." The Duke has summoned Bellario to court to advise him. However, because Bellario is too ill to “appear” in court, the brilliant Portia make the court appearance in his stead, acting as advisor to the Duke, assuming the name and identity of her male servant, Balthazar. In a book published in 1965 but written in 1935 ("Law v. Equity in 'The Merchant of Venice', a Legalization of Act IV, Scene I," (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1965), Mark Edwin Andrews explained why he aligned Francis Bacon with Bellario in "The Merchant of Venice." In 1935, Andrews was a law student taking a summer Shakespeare course from his former Princeton professor, Duncan Spaeth (translator of "Beowulf") when he wrote the manuscript for his book. Andrews would later go on to serve as Assistance Secretary of the Navy under President Truman.Andrews based the connection he drew between Bacon and Bellario on the abundance of legal terms the playwright used accurately within the play, as well as on the uncanny parallel Andrews perceived between the legal case of "Shylock v. Antonio" and the role Bacon played twenty years later in the real life 1616 case of "Glanvill v. Courtney." In both cases, “law” was pitted against “equity,” in terms of courts fighting for jurisdiction (there was also the issue of the King's prerogative). Andrews claimed that the play must have influenced those important men--Bacon and Ellesmere--who persuaded King James to rule in favor of equity in "Glanvill." To be clear, Andrews was a professed "Stratfordian." That is, he professed to believe that William Shaxpere, the actor from Stratford, wrote the plays and poems attributed to "William Shakespeare," the name on the title page of the First Folio. This, however, left him at a loss to logically explain the uncanny sense--presence or influence--of Bacon within the play, which he did acknowledge (As to the significance of a "presence not seen but felt," one might care to read what Bacon himself said in his "Maxims of the Law," Regula 14.). Using online research tools such as the search functions of the HathiTrust and Open Source Shakespeare websites, Waldman explores, more deeply than Andrews could at the time, the function and purpose of Bellario within the play.Francis Bacon was an innovator and reformer, an original thinker and problem solver. The modern world owes much to his ideas. Because Bacon took “all knowledge to be his province” and his genius touched upon many areas, this book explores a wide range of topics, including law, history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, rhetoric and theology. The book looks at parallels between words said to be “coined by” Bacon and/or Shakespeare, and explores punning, which the Elizabethans considered to be an art form. The author is a lawyer who was convinced by seeing Andrews' book thirty-five years ago that, whoever Shakespeare was, he had to have been a lawyer. A prior version (81 pp.) of the material which became this book was published by the SirBacon website "Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning," on July 28, 2016.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. To get started finding Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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