SINBAD AND ME by Kin Platt

Author:Kin Platt [Platt, Kin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781634177160
Publisher: PAGE PUBLISHING
Published: 2015-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

Captain Billy’s Ghost Decides To Pay Me A Visit

I guess the main reason Sir Francis Bacon hit me is because my father is some kind of a nut.

His drama collection is quite a big one. It has all the plays from Aristophanes and Euripides and Sophocles and Moliere and Ibsen right up to the present. It includes William Shakespeare, of course, too. But he’s in a special section above.

My old man is a very stubborn guy. According to him there was no such man as William Shakespeare, the playwright. So Shakespeare is on another shelf.

He’s surrounded by books by Francis Bacon and Peele and Marlowe and Ben Jonson. And that’s the whole point of it. According to dear old dad all these books were written by the same man. You guessed it.

Francis Bacon.

I suppose you know that this argument has been going on a long time. My old man isn’t the only one who goes for Bacon in this matter. There are quite a few other people who fell the same way. I’ve got nothing against William Shakespeare and if he wants to say he wrote all his plays that’s okay with me. The big trouble is he didn’t say it.

Francis Bacon took the trouble to say it. Once my dad was pretty heated up about evidence turned up in one of William Shakespeare’s early works. The first edition.

There was a poem. All in cipher. When they broke down the cipher they found Bacon taking the credit for himself.

I looked in the frontispiece of the old book. My pop had written it down, I guess, to remind him he had a good case. Here’s what it said:

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