Francis Bacon and His Secret Society

About this book

Was Francis Bacon connected with a secret intellectual brotherhood, and could its symbols explain puzzles surrounding Shakespeare and the Renaissance? Constance Mary Pott follows a trail of literary hints and speculative associations.

Her book belongs to the movement that attributed hidden societies and encoded messages to Bacon's influence. The theories are historically disputed, but the reasoning offers a remarkable portrait of the era's appetite for concealed authorship. A stray emblem or a coincidence of phrasing can become, in Pott's hands, another piece of a supposed secret history.