30-10-2016, 08:18 AM
Looney's 1920 classic in PDF: https://ia800207.us.archive.org/9/items/...oniala.pdf
If you want to listen to the book:
[video=youtube_share;nK5fDsCgVXk]http://youtu.be/nK5fDsCgVXk[/video]
Published on Feb 8, 2014
The establishment's view of Looney is well-captured here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Thomas_Looney
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as patron of Francis Bacon: http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/w...EO-ELR.pdf
Extract:
If you want to listen to the book:
[video=youtube_share;nK5fDsCgVXk]http://youtu.be/nK5fDsCgVXk[/video]
Published on Feb 8, 2014
The establishment's view of Looney is well-captured here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Thomas_Looney
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, as patron of Francis Bacon: http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/w...EO-ELR.pdf
Extract:
Quote:In 1578, 18-year-old Francis Bacon had arrived back in England for his father's funeral. Unable to return to Paris for lack of funds (unfortunately for Francis, his father had died before providing him with a living), and with nothing more important to engage his voracious intellectual energies, Bacon hooked up with Oxford, falling quickly into the role of Puck to his Oberon, Ariel to his Prospero.
His Lordship returned the favor by connecting the talented youth with printers who published his poems, anonymously at first, then, with Sir Walter Raleigh's help, as by Edmund Spenser. With the real Spenser far off in the wilds of southern Ireland, and with Sir Walter willing to see to it that he got a stipend for the use of his name, Bacon was encouraged to publish for the public some of the writings he'd been distributing to the Court community via manuscript, among them such divergent works as The Faerie Queene, written to entertain the Queen and her ladies, and Mother Hubberd's Cupboard, a satire in the vein he'd soon be spieling
as Thomas Nashe.
Lacking a paying Court position, Bacon was forced to provide for himself by working as a high level private secretary to Court figures in need of politically sensitive, well-written letters and official documents in both English and Latin. First among his patrons was Secretary of State Walsingham, who, when Oxford refused to write for the Court during his banishment, urged Francis to step in with plays for the boys in a style that came as close as he could manage to the euphuism that the Queen had come to expect and that were directed and staged by Oxford's secretary John Lyly. By the end of the decade there were eight of these, which, like Oxford's Euphues novels, were published under Lyly's name.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
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