This book shows how the book "Acts and Monuments, or Book of Martyrs," by John Foxe, made possible most of the great works of genius which followed it, which themselves were written and composed by a very few people operating under various pseudonyms. Contents: William Shakespeare, Henry Wriothesley, Robert Devereux, William Herbert, Ben Jonson, Mary Stuart, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Hall Caine, Edgar Allen Poe, Samuel L. Clemens, Shakespeare's grave and monument; Shakespeare's wall monument.