Shakespeare-Bacon: An Essay is a book written by Edward Walter Smithson in 1899. The book examines the long-standing debate about the true authorship of William Shakespeare's plays and proposes that Francis Bacon, a philosopher, scientist, and statesman of the Elizabethan era, may have been the real author of Shakespeare's works. Smithson presents evidence and arguments to support this theory, including similarities in style and content between Bacon's...