Reviews

As an introduction to Francis Bacon, his life, philosophy and motivation, John Henry‘s Knowledge is Power: How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Inspired Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science is the best that I have read to date. As the sub-title of this slim but pithy volume intimates, Henry describes how Francis Bacon was inspired to create a method of science that would replace Aristotelianism by his interest in “Magic”, his involvement with “the Government” and by his Protestant “Apocalyptic Vision”.

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When Shakespeare died in 1616, it would not have occurred to anybody to claim that somebody else had written his plays.

That’s how things stood for around 250 years.

However, today we can find dozens of rival candidates including Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, the Earl of Oxford, and more recently, Henry Neville…

In his recently published book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? James Shapiro writes,

‘I happen to believe that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him.’

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