Francis Bacon

1. Francis Bacon By: Nick, Dylan, Chase, Lance

2. Overview • Bacon's Education • Bacon's Career • Bacon's Literary Works • Bacon is Shakespeare? • Works Cited

3. Education • Bacon was brought up in a wealthy family and thus had access to a formal education. • Bacon was tutored at home for the early years of his life.  • When he was twelve he enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, while there he studied language, statecraft and civil law. •  He also studied at Grays inn, a very prestigious law school. • He attended Trinity for three years and his extensive education is one of the biggest supporting reasons why people believe he might have been Shakespeare. •  He had the general literary  knowledge to have been able to write Shakespeare's plays.

4. Bacon's Career • He was a Lord Chancellor in 1618 • He wrote books like the New Atlantis • Had his own style of Literary works • He attended many colleges • Had his own scientific method • Created the idols - an understanding of nature

5. Bacon's Literary Works • Bacon's style may seem simple but it is actually very complex. • He rates among the top echelon of 17-century English Authors alongside with people like Johnson, Mill, Carlyle, and Ruskin. • Bacon's earlier works were essentialy products of his "spare time". It was only during his last five years that he was able to concentrate on his writings. •  Along with Bacon's literary works he was also very well known for his scientific and philosophical works. • Francis Bacon is the father of the scientific method which shows he had great knowledge. • All these facts lead people to believe that Bacon did in fact write Shakespeares plays.

6. Bacon is Shakespeare? • He was a lawyer and had knowledge of parliamentary law  • Had etiquette of the royal court revealed in Shakespeare's plays. • The Religious, philosophical and educational messages reflect Bacons personal opinions. • He had the range of general and philosophical  knowledge to write the plays   • He wrote some of the earliest modern works on codes and ciphers.  • The content of the dramas were in his point of view. • Bacon visited foreign countries forming background of Shakespeares plays. • Whoever wrote Shakespeare was said to go to Canbridge University and be a scholar which both fit the description of  Francis Bacon.

7. Works Cited  Simpson, Davis. "Bacon, Francis [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. In Dutch, Steven. "Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?" University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. 5 Feb. 1998. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/hidncode.htm. "Baconian Evidence for Shakespeare Authorship." Sir Francis Bacon's New Advancement of Learning Bacon Is Shakespeare : Discover England's Theatre Genius. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. <http://www.sirbacon.org/links/evidence.htm>. ternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 20 Feb. 03. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. <http://www.iep.utm.edu/bacon/>. "Durning Lawrence Library - The Bacon-Shakespeare Authorship Controversy." Senate House Library. Web. 12 Dec. 2011. <http://www.ull.ac.uk/specialcollections/baconshakespeare.shtml>.