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Links
Primary Texts
Various electronic editions of Bacon, Shakespeare and other Elizabethan
authors are scattered across the Internet, but there is no central resource
for researchers. Some good sites, many with comprehensive links pages
of their own, are listed here:
Bacon and Shakespeare
Luminarium.org
contains a good listing of major Bacon works available. This site features
an outstanding selection of renaissance and early modern texts, and contextual
information.
Sarah
Smith's collection of Shakespearean links, including the entire Shakespeare
corpus online
General
Project Gutenberg,
the original comprehensive source of e-texts on the Internet
Hanover College
contains another useful selection of early modern texts
Research and Information Resources
The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains a short online biography and a
thorough introduction to Bacon's philosophy
Senate House Library,
the main library of the University of London, is the home of the Durning-Lawrence
library (bequeathed by the well-known Baconian Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence)
and contains most of the Francis Bacon Society Library on deposit.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in
Washington D.C. contains 'the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's
printed works'. As well as providing information about the library, Folger's
site also contains the HAMNET
online catalog.
The Royal Society site features
the continuing work of a society founded to advance Bacon's scientific
vision.
Baconian Websites
Lawrence Gerald's sirbacon.org
features an enormous amount of Baconian information and opinion
Penn Leary's site: strong emphasis
on Elizabethan cipher from an expert
Authorship Analysis Paul Dupuy
Jr.'s elegantly presented pages
The Francis Bacon Research Trust
- lots of material from a contemporary esoteric perspective
www.light-of-truth.com -
extremely unusual site of interest to fans of numerological cipher
Emblems
Minerva Britanna,
containing images of Baconian interest, provided by Middlebury College
Baconian Links Pages
Bacon
Bookmarks Excellent links page of particular interest to 'new age'
enthusiasts
Shakespeare Authorship Question
Stratfordian
Main Stratfordian site
Impartial
The most useful
impartial overview, and unusual in that the author refrains from insisting
at all costs upon his own opinion.
Baconian
Francis Carr's Shakespeare
Authorship site
Cryptography
Channel 4's excellent pages
Classic
manuals of cryptography from the 16th and 17th centuries
Bacon and homosexuality
Useful introduction
to the question of Bacon's sexuality
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