Contents: Baconian and anti-William positions; "silence" about Shakespeare; that impossible he, the schooling of Shakespeare; Mr. Churton Collins on Shakespeare's learning; Shakespeare, genius and society; the courtly plays, "Love's Labor's Lost"; contemporary recognition of Will as author; "The Silence of Philip Henslowe"; later life of Shakespeare, his monument and portraits; the traditional Shakespeare; first folio; Ben Jonson and Shakespeare; preoccupation of Bacon; and appendices of "Troilus and Cressida" and Chettle's supposed allusion to Will Shakespeare.