Crossword-Solution: BACONIANS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Firm believers that Shakespeare's plays were written by statesman Francis | 1 answer |
| Some authorship doubters | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACONIANS (5)
Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for “Titus Andronicus,” the only play—ain’t it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tried to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.
Two of these cults are known as the Shakespearites and the Baconians, and I am the other one—the Brontosaurian.
Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much more reasonable and rational and persuasive results out of them than is the case with the Shakespearites.
The Baconians claim that the Stratford Shakespeare was not qualified to write the Works, and that Francis Bacon was.
Such a man, the Baconians assume, would naturally be chosen by Bacon as his mask, and put forward as the author of Bacon’s pieces.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2018).