For years, a popular debate has been raging about whether Shakespeare
was really the author of the many plays and poems published under his name. Doubters argue that Shakespeare could
not have accomplished such a great feat, pointing instead to other well-known
figures. Richard Ramsbotham offers a completely different perspective by
reexamining the available evidence and by introducing unexplored aspects of
Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual-scientific research. The author discusses
Shakespeare’s life as an actor, mysteries of the debate such as the enigmatic
Psalm 46, and the persistent question of Francis Bacon’s connection with
Shakespeare.
Recently, a movement has been gaining ground that sees Bacon himself
as the covert writer of the great works attributed to Shakespeare. Not content
with this radical claim, that movement also wishes to place Bacon on the primary
pedestal of British civilization, as a kind of patron saint of the modern
scientific age. The author provides substantial confirmation of a definite
connection between Shakespeare and Bacon, but one that radically challenges the
conclusions of the Baconian movement. The author also opens remarkable new
perspectives on King James I and his connections not only with Shakespeare and
Bacon but also with Jakob Böhme, Rudolf II, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and the
original Globe Theatre.
Published 400 years after the Hampton Court Conference of 1604, Who
Wrote Bacon? offers a timely contribution to these themes, and shows how they
remain critically important to our understanding of the twenty-first
century.
Includes eight pages of B/W plates.
AUTHOR
BIO:
Richard Ramsbotham (M.A.
Cantab.) was born in 1962. After teaching English Literature at Warsaw
University (1989-1993), he trained at Artemis School of Speech and Drama and
later worked as a performer and writer with the Rose Theatre Company. He teaches
drama at the Glasshouse College, Stourbridge, and is writing the authorized
biography of Vernon Watkins.