humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 22, 7:11 pm, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:
> > > > > Elizabeth wrote:


> > I am of the view that the only way
> > to determine the identity of the
> > author is to understand the cultural,
> > historical, literary context.
> > Otherwise all is flux.
>
> The cultural, historical, literary context, IMO, IS
> (fundamentally) Francis Bacon's Great Instauration.
>
> But Bacon wasn't Superman; he couldn't do everything!

Bacon could do more than most. He
was a bona fide genius on an illiterate
island that couldn't produce geniuses on the
scale of Italy's. Like business, genius
is about location, location, location.

> I believe that Bacon succeeded with his Great Instauration; do you?

Bacon did not succeed. The Great
Instauration was a failure, mainly because,
with the support of the British establishment,
(see C. Kahn) the Strats successfully demonized and destroyed an
English philosopher (see Matthew, Vickers,
Sams, et al). The demonizers were
rewarded with knighthoods and baronies.

It's no coincidence that Baconian authorship
began in the US, not Britain.

Bacon's science is all over the
Shakespeare works, an empirical (not
imperial) science based on . . .

Spanish travel narratives

. . . which narratives abandon the medieval 'time' construction of
reality to discover
modern 'space.' I don't think Oviedo, et
all put all this together on a theoretical
level (since Spain remained subbornly
medieval) but Spanish travel narratives
are the source of Bacon's empirical
science.

After reading Julie Solomon I figured
out what Hamlet meant when he said
'time is out of joint.' In addition to Hamlet's
commentary on empirical physics, there's
a little pun stuffed in there about the 'jointure'
that put time out of place.

That line would not be possible without
Bacon's familiarity with Spanish travel narratives.